You're listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio. I'm your host,

Jimmy Hinton. As we come into the 250th year anniversary, the celebration of America, and all that she is in all of her glory.

We just have such a powerful year this year. We have the astronauts who went to the moon for

the first time in 53 years. We have so many big activities and I feel like a lot of this stuff gets overshadowed by the

negativity in the news. The war in Iran and so forth. There are many, many things that

overshadow good news. But today I want to talk about a story that is absolutely riveting, and I found this by accident.

And I love these stories that I find accidentally.

I had no idea that this person even existed until just a couple days ago.

And this story is absolutely inspiring.

I can't wait to share this with you.

And it's a story of overcoming. It's a story of digging yourself out of rock bottom and making something absolutely

wonderful with your life. Now we all remember the pandemic. The pandemic was a dark time in our nation's history and really in the history of the world.

We had the over-regulation and the government, you know, big brother coming and telling us what we can and can't do,

where we can and can't worship, how we can and can't worship, how we have to mask up,

how we have to take the COVID shot where you're going to be fired from your job,

and you're going to be publicly shamed and humiliated because you hesitated and weren't quite sure that it was on the

market long enough to be able to be tested and all of that good stuff.

You get it.

You get the picture.

The social distancing, which didn't make any sense.

On and on and on.

Having kids stay home from school for an entire year or more.

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