Let's Rejoice Our Gifts (Monday Moments ep. 309)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
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🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
As this week ushers us toward my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I wanted to say to try to help reduce the anxiety, divisiveness, anger and general exhaustion you may be feeling.
It’s been a profoundly difficult year. The need to slow down, count blessings and come together not only as a family around a Thanksgiving meal, but as a nation, is critical.
[I had the pleasure of interviewing Julia Jackson’s pastor of more than 30 years on our most recent Live Inspired Podcast episode. Pastor James Ward profoundly influenced Ms. Jackson’s life. When you listen, he’ll undoubtedly influence yours, too. Listen here.]
Let’s use this important season to come together and rejoice in our gifts, challenges we’ve endured, lessons we’ve learned, and in the truth that in spite of our many mistakes and differences, that we are indeed better together, we are made for greatness and that the best is yet to come.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving week. Lower your voices. Open your hearts.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the live-inspired podcast Monday morning moments, the week of Thanksgiving with your host, John O'Leary, as this week usures us toward my favorite holiday. I love Thanksgiving. I've been thinking a lot about what I wanted to say to try to help reduce some stress, some divisiveness, some anger, and some general exhaustion that so many of us right now are feeling. It's been a profoundly difficult year on so many fronts, the need to slow down to count our |
| 0:39.5 | blessings and to come together not only as a family around a Thanksgiving meal, but as a nation, |
| 0:46.5 | as a global marketplace. |
| 0:48.6 | It's critical. |
| 0:49.7 | It's critical. |
| 0:51.0 | So given a chance, what would I say that I wanted to say to the Democratic Party? Or, |
| 0:58.4 | conversely, for those of you wondering, well, John, what about the Republicans? Fine. What would I say |
| 1:02.8 | right now to the Republicans? What needs to be said right now to Biden or to Harris or to Trump |
| 1:10.7 | and to Pence? What would I say to the organizers and the |
| 1:14.7 | protesters who stand with Black Lives Matters or those who counter that all lives matter? |
| 1:22.7 | What would I say to people who look or act or vote differently than I do. And how will I respond to this Thanksgiving |
| 1:30.0 | week to those who feel differently than I do about important topics? Perhaps most importantly, |
| 1:35.6 | though, what would you say? What would you say to the Democratic Party or the Republican Party? |
| 1:41.1 | To Biden and Harris or Trump and Pence, to Black Lives Matters, or to all |
| 1:46.3 | lives matter, to those who act and vote and look and worship differently than you do or feel |
| 1:51.7 | differently about topics than you do right now. |
| 1:53.9 | What would you say to them? |
| 1:55.1 | What would you say? |
| 1:55.9 | What needs to be said? |
| 1:57.6 | Well, my friends, let's take a page from the book of Julia Jackson. Two days after her son, |
| 2:04.9 | Jacob Blake, that's a name you probably recognize, after Jacob Blake was shot in the back |
| 2:09.3 | seven times by a police officer, Julia Jackson had such an opportunity. She is the mother of Jacob |
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