Choose Your Own Tattoo

Ordinary People. Ordinary Things. with Melissa Radke

Melissa Radke

Eatcake, Religion & Spirituality, Redribbon, Eatcakebebrave, Ordinarypeople, Christianity, Thissucksbutgodisgood, Thissucks, Comedy, Ordinarypeopleordinarythings, Melissaradke

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🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the Fourth of July, I want to talk about freedom. I’m talking about the kind of freedom that happens to us, by us, and in spite of us. I’m going to talk about the kind of imprisonment that I brought on myself, but first an excerpt from my upcoming book. Eat Cake. Be Brave.

I’ve been sharing excerpts that pertain to my podcasts. Today’s was hard to choose. My book is a memoir of how all the years of my life led up to my 41st year. This year changed me forever. Before this point, I figuratively, spiritually, and mentally spent a lot of time in prison. This excerpt is from the chapter entitled All Inked up and No Place to Go.

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Show Notes

[02:04] Excerpt from Eat Cake. Be Brave. All Inked Up and No Place to Go...
[06:23] I have a shirt that I sell called Choose Your Own Tattoo. People have no clue what the shirt means until they hear me speak.
[07:05] My prison was in physical it came in words. These words they called me stuck.
[09:05] The white noise that plays in the background of your mind and your thoughts. The words that have been used against you and have stuck.
[10:16] What is the white noise that you hear day in and day out?
[10:58] White noise becomes a protective barrier between sleep and what is going on.
[11:21] What plays over and over in your thought life becomes a barrier from what is really going on.
[11:31] What if what lied on the other side of the barrier was freedom?
[12:22] It took a long time to get so tatted up, it's going to take a long time to fix the issue.
[12:45] It will take a long time to undo those thought processes, but it can be done. I am living proof of that.
[12:57] The first thing I did was open up my computer and type out everything that God had said about me.
[13:13] I printed 10 copies and pasted them around my house.
[13:52] If you have a tattoo that is the opposite of what God has said about you or your situation, one of those things is untrue. Guess which one?
[14:50] The devil isn't doing this to you. You are doing it to yourself.
[15:22] God is available to you in books, podcasts, and copies printed out at your desk.
[15:42] Freedom isn't free. It takes work and diligence.
[16:23] You are made in God's image, and there will be a time when this reference just comes up.
[17:06] When you hear yourself begin to say these things about how you are a child of God, they will be ingrained in your soul.
[17:20] An excerpt from the Message Bible Second Corinthians 3: 17-18…
[18:42] Aren't you ready to live free and exchange your past?
[19:24] What you are wanting is just within your grasp.The key is right there and you can reach it.
[19:35] Happy Fourth of July. Enjoy your freedom.
[20:52] More from Eat Cake. Be Brave. All Inked Up and No Place to Go...

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0:00.0	Hi y'all you're listening to ordinary people ordinary things with me your host Melissa Radke the
0:07.1	ordinariest of us all Tomorrow is the 4th of July.
0:16.1	Tomorrow is the 4th of July.
0:18.7	Depending on when you are listening to this,
0:20.5	it may actually already be the 6th of July heck I don't know it may be October 3rd
0:25.0	but I am recording it near the 4th of July and that's why today I want to talk about freedom
0:32.0	not the US history kind. Lord, no! I flunked out of the first
0:37.4	college I ever went to because of history, which actually now that I'm thinking
0:42.0	about it, probably means I am doomed to repeat it
0:44.7	So not that kind but the kind that happens to us
0:49.0	By us because of us in spite of us. I want to talk today about imprisonment, the kind I brought
0:58.1	on myself, which is why my guest today is, well, me. Who better to talk about the prison I built for myself than me? But
1:08.1	before we jump into this, I'd like to share an excerpt from my upcoming book, Eat Cake, Be Brave.
1:14.0	Every week leading up to the book release I've been sharing an excerpt here and there
1:18.0	as it pertains, but today it was hard to choose what to read because, I don't't know my book is kind of like a memoir
1:24.3	the best way to describe it is I've said this before it's really about how all the
1:28.3	years of my life led up to my 41st year on my birthday to be exact and how that year changed me forever.
1:36.7	But before then, well, I spent a lot of time in prison.
1:41.0	Not literally, but I'm just here to tell you that's only about the grace of God.
1:45.1	But figuratively, spiritually, mentally, socially, emotionally.
1:52.0	So when it comes to just choosing one point of reference from my pain that runs throughout my story, well, it's hard.
1:58.5	But I think I'll go with this one from the chapter entitled All Inked Up and No Place to Go.
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