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Allen Jackson: Building Legacy | Allen Jackson Now

August 25, 2025 | 21:18

Taya Kyle joins Allen Jackson to discuss her faith journey, building a legacy, supporting heroes and more.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Building Legacy | Allen Jackson Now | August 25, 2025

Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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You know,
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I meet people in all stages of life
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As pastor of world outreach church
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And many of the strongest people i've met
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Are those who've suffered a loss,
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Including those who've had to fight
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Through challenges that came up suddenly,
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Whether they were ready or not.
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Well, tonight we have a guest who's not just survived,
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But thriving through her sudden loss.
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It's a loss that happened just as she was raising
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Two young children
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While her husband was fighting abroad to protect our country.
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He wasn't just any man in combat.
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He was the sharpshooter who beat all others.
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The navy seals called him the legend.
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The iraqis.
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They called him the devil of ramadi.
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And after he was cruelly murdered by a man,
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He was trying to help.
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His bestselling memoir was made into a movie,
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American sniper, the most lethal sniper in u.s.
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Military history.
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His name, chris kyle, was that.
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I want to welcome our guest tonight.
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It's his wife, taya kyle.
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It's nice to have you here in nashville.
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Thank you for having me.
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Welcome to the green hills of tennessee.
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So beautiful.
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And here we agree.
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Yes. well, your children, colten and mckenna,
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Are young adults now. yes.
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And you've been very open about telling those
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Who speak with you
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That you leaned on your faith to not just take care of them.
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Just take care of yourself as well.
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So how's your family doing these days?
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Truly, i don't say this as a cliche,
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But by the grace of god, we are doing really well
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And it's taken a lot longer, i think, than
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Maybe we would have thought with grief.
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I mean, it's been a wild christmas.
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Killed in 2013.
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And while we found a way to thrive along
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The way, it's not as clean our great.
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So we've had the ups and downs in the middle
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And the things that we've had to do to fight back.
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And i feel like
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We're really at a place where it's coming together.
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We know how to navigate the setbacks when they happen,
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And they're fewer and farther between.
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Well, you don't have a roadmap for negotiating
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That kind of pain and disappointment.
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No, that's a real time adjustment every day.
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It is.
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And, you know, one of the things
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That i feel like there is a massive
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I don't know if i could say it was spiritual warfare,
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But it felt very much like that
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For our family because it was kicked off.
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I mean, we had
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Chris and i had our own battles, you know, marriage and war
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And service and ptsd and all of the things that happened.
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And then he's brutally murdered with a friend of ours.
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And then there were these things that were happening
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Before he was killed.
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There was a lawsuit
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Against him, continued against him after he died.
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There was some business issues.
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There are family issues
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And other things, people that came in to help.
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We didn't see ourselves as target.
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We're just we're just everyday people.
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So i never occurred to me
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That people who would come in
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Under the guise of helping were actually there
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To take and to steal and to rob.
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And so calling them academic kids,
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Their foundational years were built of
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Murder was their first exposure to real evil.
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And then the next decade,
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It was like hit after hit of things
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That they didn't see coming.
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And, and, i didn't see coming.
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Right. and it would be great
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If i had the roadmap, but i didn't. and
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I think we were
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All surprised and devastated and crushed
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And at the same time, on very high volume
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Kindness of people, people coming in so much love.
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And these experiences and exposure to truly
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The best of people.
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And through all of that, god on high, high volume coming in,
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Proving himself and his love
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In ways that i could get choked up talking about
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And i wouldn't, i wouldn't know those ways that he rescues
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And carries and loves us without the pain.
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Well, your responses are intriguing to me.
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You've been busy,
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You've written books, you've set up the tell you and
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Chris kyle family service, marriage, strong organization.
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Yes, it's a mouthful.
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It is a mouthful.
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And i that was a board decision
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Not to tell you a decision but it works. it works.
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We work with people. yes.
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But how did you map all this out
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And get so many people involved
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While you're in the midst of raising your young children
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And and tragedies bubbling all around?
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That's an amazing story.
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It is.
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I think one of the things that i know for certain,
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One of my coping mechanisms was get busy, stay busy.
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Somebody can take her body, but they can't take her spirit.
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And i had this fire to just go, and it was nice
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Because i couldn't outrun the pain.
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But i could get myself
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Really busy and cry and grieve while i'm doing these things.
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But it could just try to distract me enough that it was,
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You know, like you're drowning and and you're just like.
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But i could see the horizon,
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And i can see this, and i can grab this.
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You know, that's kind of what that was like for me.
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And it's only been recently where i recognized
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That there's also time for a slow down and
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By the grace of god, again, i don't say that lightly.
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He infused healing even in the busyness.
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And so
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I think i'm very blessed and fortunate
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That we were able to fit all of that in.
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And i also recognize that there was a cost.
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And i think,
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You know, my daughters,
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It would have been better for her grieving
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If there was more of a slowdown instead of all the busyness.
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My son was able to
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Navigate and his coping mechanism,
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Which we don't shop for them. right.
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We just sort of innately have them was busyness, too.
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So he was able to navigate, learn, pick up, you know,
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Tips and ways to do things.
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So it worked for him, too. but,
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For her, i wish it had been different.
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Well, healing and recovery comes to all of us
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In different ways, in different cases.
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As much as i want to be in control.
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We don't control that.
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Yeah, but you're also in the business
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Of helping military families. yeah.
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And beyond that, you provide support
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For first responders, police, firefighters, emt.
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You've got partners in all this.
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Gary sinise i know works with you.
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Do you know how many people
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You've already helped with all this? it's fascinating.
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It is. it's been thousands.
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And we've been really blessed.
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It's so my passion is a long
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Term, life saving, life changing solution.
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So when we have a couple come into our foundation,
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We stay with them for two years.
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Wow. so it's two years of coaching them
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From a strength perspective, which is huge for people
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Who are service minded.
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We're not going to say, come in
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And let's talk about your problems, right.
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Come in. let's do an assessment of your strengths.
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Now let's figure out how you can use those in your marriage.
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And it has been the most rewarding and,
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Challenging work.
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But we we partner with baylor university studies, all of it.
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And i just
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I feel blessed and honored to be able to witness
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So many people
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Showing up to pour into their marriage
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And save their marriage and their family.
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That you and chris talked about doing something like this.
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So one of the things that he wanted to do,
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I think, to make it very clear that that american sniper,
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The book and the movie were not about him
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Was to give any proceeds away.
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And we were on the the way to do that.
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It's a little bit different.
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We learned a lot about tax law and ways that you can give.
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But the way he originally intended it,
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He realized before he died wasn't going to work.
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And so he said, we need to find a way to help more families.
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And so we started brainstorming.
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But then he was killed,
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Just a little over a month after we had that conversation.
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And i thought, by the grace of god again,
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We ended on a high note when most people were divorced
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Or barely surviving,
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He hadn't been out of the military
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Very long, and we'd weather that storm of transition.
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And so i thought, okay, you know, god,
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I would love to give back to marriages because you gave us
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This opportunity.
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And on a high note, i want that for others.
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And i had three reasons why
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I couldn't do it that year, the year he died.
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But i would get on it, you know, the next year.
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And then god quickly removed 1 to 3 reasons why i couldn't.
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And i was like, oh my gosh, right now.
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So in 2014, we started down the road
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And and we've been able to build and change and morph and adapt
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And overcome and
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And today i feel like we're in a solid, solid place.
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Flying with the organization.
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Was a remarkable story of resiliency and overcoming.
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Thank you.
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I want to hear more. we have another segment ahead.
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And we'd like to bring your son colton in for this. yes.
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I was so excited for people to meet him.
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Do well please.
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You stay right where you are. we'll be right back.
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You stay right where you are. we'll be right back.
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We're back with taya
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Kyle and now with her son colton as well.
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Welcome to nashville, colton.
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Thank you for having me.
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I'm honored.
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You know, you've also had your first several
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Speaking engagements.
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I understand who you've been speaking to.
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How's it going?
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A number of organizations.
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And i'm honored
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That they even want to have me speak and hear my voice.
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But they've gone very well spoken to the bay area
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Firefighters, for club beyond, which is a military,
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Teen extension of young life ministries.
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And some more, even more recently
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That i'm just i'm passionate about speaking.
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I'm young, inexperienced, but i'm passionate about speaking,
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And sharing and teaching what i know.
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And i have
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Have a lot of experiences in life live
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That i think would be valuable for a lot of people.
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Well, god
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Has a habit of recruiting young people
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And giving them some pretty significant assignments.
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So you're young, but it's not an insignificant role.
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But the lord's before you.
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You were only eight years old when you lost your dad,
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But you're old enough to have some wonderful memories
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Of your time with him.
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Can you share a bit of what he taught you
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And what you're sharing with others now?
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Yes, absolutely.
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So, one of my hallmark memories
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Of being with him is actually, the result of something
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That he did with me.
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So grief and strong emotions affect our memory strongly.
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And i wish i remembered more.
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And i'm also satisfied with what i do remember.
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But one of those things being, he taught me at a very young age
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How to, rear naked, choke someone from from the back,
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And, yeah.
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And so he was, he taught me, you know,
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Expanding on that grit and resilience and also,
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There's a time to use it.
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There's a time not to which i quickly learned.
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And, how to be fun loving at the same time.
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And don't take yourself,
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Or others for that matter, too seriously.
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That's fun.
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But you and your sister, mckenna, experienced
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A lot of difficult things during your foundational years.
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How's that shaped your faith today?
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It's been, integral.
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Absolutely.
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Paramount. and,
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It's a blessing.
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Glad that, that god has trusted our family
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With these experiences to be able to be overcomers, to be,
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To be given this mission to help
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Other people in the way that we, have been
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Anointed, i would say, so it's a blessing.
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And, i don't think you can truly get stronger
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And be able to show the grit and the resilience
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Experientially that you might have through had knowledge.
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I don't think you can show that experientially
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Without being tried and tested. and,
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We're blessed to know god that knows
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How things are going to pan out and what's inside of us.
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And, honored that he chose us for that.
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Well, i like the words you used overcomer.
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Your dad was clearly an overcomer.
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And as we've got to know one another of your stories
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Are fascinating to me. your courage.
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You know, you could have,
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I suppose, sat down and been angry or hurt or.
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But you have charted pathways forward.
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You know, how did together.
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Did you feel that?
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What how did you decide not to sit down and cry
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And feel sorry for yourselves, but to get up and be overcomers?
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It's a great question.
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Yeah, it is, i think,
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I think we had to learn to make space for both
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Because it the i think our instinct, i think i was
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I speak for colton to
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Our instinct is to roll up your sleeves, get in there
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And just get it done and make it happen.
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And we both had to learn how to get really comfortable with
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Also crying, feeling raging.
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I feel like in god you can speak to this, but
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Watching my son, who's so strong, you know,
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Bodybuilding does all the stuff and then
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Just talk about something difficult and have tears,
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You know, come those cheeks
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And not have to say, i'm sorry, i'm crying.
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He just
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It's like, this is the truth of who i am right now.
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And this is the truth of what's happening right.
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Now, isn't diminish your strength.
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Thank you.
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Yes. and i have just i've really loved that.
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We've learned that life is both.
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You can speak to mark gold, but that's what i.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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Something that, you've even taught me is the power of. and,
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Holding in two hands the same situation
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From different perspectives
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And feeling very angry and recognize the injustice of
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A situation.
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And at the same time appreciate what that's doing for us.
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And so i want to talk a lot about this, the,
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Exciting side of things
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And what that means for our family,
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What that means for other people.
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And i do recognize at the same time the injustice.
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And i do have sadness and anger, at people in situations.
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And the good thing is that i can
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Go to the god who understands that personally.
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There's some real wisdom there.
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That dynamic tension between what has happened to me
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Is awful, is not fair, and i hate it.
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And i'm going to go forward and love the lord.
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Absolutely.
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That dynamic tension gives us a pathway forward.
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Well, i don't want to run out of time.
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I want you to tell us a bit
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About your online shop at american sniper.com
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And the navy seal logo that you're using.
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There's a story there. yeah. thank you.
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So, it is important to me to note
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That i am not trying to use a navy seal logo.
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I know that that's very, sacred and very important.
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So i don't want to be sacrilegious in that sense, but,
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I'm building a brand around my father's story
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And his legacy.
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It builds on five core pillars
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Godliness, patriotism, passion, service, and excellence.
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Those are values that we share
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And values that i'm excited to expand on the legacy with,
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Build a community of people
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And provide them, starting with apparel and,
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Soon to be many other products.
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I have a collaboration with wiley x,
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But showcasing a godly patriotism
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That we are willing to fight for through and through.
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And then showcasing the warrior ethos and what that looks like
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When applied to your faith and your life,
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And how that's very necessary at times,
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And how you can show virtue through,
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Being capable of
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Violence and then not using it when it's not necessary.
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If you bring a calf with you.
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I did. this is a gift for you.
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Oh, that.
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I hope you'll wear and break in.
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Well.
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And what's the website again?
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Where they can find your apparel and your gear?
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American sniper.com.
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American sniper.com. yes, sir.
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I tell you, you're busy too.
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You've written several bestselling books,
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And now you published your first children's book.
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Yes. i'm so excited about it.
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Actually called mentioned the power of.
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And this book is about gratitude and not negating that
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This sweet bear
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Bailey has a lot to be grateful for and every night
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For his gratitude.
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But then what happens on the one day
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That there isn't so much to be grateful for?
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And bailey's parents teach bailey to pray for things like,
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Gratitude, the roof over my head, the food
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To eat, a little bare hands, a little bare feet,
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Which is so perfect for kids. right?
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We still have things that people all over
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The world are wishing for and don't have. so
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Some of my team was reading it and they were all commenting.
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They loved it. oh that's awesome.
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Where do we find this?
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I think on amazon probably the easiest way.
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Barnes and noble, but these days amazon works well.
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I want to thank you both.
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It's been wonderful to have you here.
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And the foundation website is tak f.org.
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It's easy to remember
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Because those are the initials for t and chris kyle.
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Yes. foundation.org. perfect.
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Thank you.
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Look at me.
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Next time bring your sister to.
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Okay.
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We'll get another chair i promise
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We'll make room for everybody. okay.
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Thank you.
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I'll look forward to it.
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Well, well,
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I'll be back in a moment with some thoughts of my own.
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I'll be back in a moment with some thoughts of my own.
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Tell you and golden stories.
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An inspiration to us all.
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You know, in the midst of heartbreaking tragedy.
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With the help of god and his promises
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Found in scripture,
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They were able to work through their grief
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And arrive at a place where they can honor
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The legacy of their husband and father
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Through their ongoing efforts to help military families.
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Their testimony is the testimony of an overcomer
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That you may be watching,
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And you may be thinking that if jesus loved me,
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I wouldn't have a tragedy
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Or my heart wouldn't be broken,
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Or my family wouldn't be rearranged.
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If god loves us, how can these things happen?
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But the bible doesn't tell us that we get a journey free
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Of conflict or opposition.
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Rather than blame god for all the challenges,
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We have to acknowledge
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That evil exist and that jesus gave us his peace.
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One of my favorite verses in all the scriptures, john 1427
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Jesus was speaking.
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He said, peace i leave with you.
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My peace i give you.
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I don't give to you as the world gives.
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Don't let your hearts be troubled.
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Don't be afraid
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When jesus said this, he wasn't leading a life
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That was trying to cool or quiet.
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In fact, most of the places jesus went to there was turmoil.
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He was rejected frequently.
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Ultimately, he was tortured to death.
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Yet jesus viewed peace as a state of security.
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In the midst of conflict, you'd never find him anxious.
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You had a calm assurance
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Of god's abiding presence, and he gave it to us.
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In this world,
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We live in an arena where both good and evil are in play,
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And when we encounter tragedy or disappointment,
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The temptation oftentimes is just to give up.
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But the fact is, we can't stop.
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We must persevere because as christ followers,
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We still have an assignment
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To be salt and light in the darkness of this world.
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So i want to establish a new baseline for you.
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I believe we can lead lives
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That are defined by a sense of security,
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No matter how difficult the circumstances.
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Let's meditate on the promises that god has extended to us
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In his word.
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So we might live as overcomers,
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Triumphing over every expression of evil.
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We can have peace through his strength,
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And that is a real reason for hope.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us today.
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Just a reminder
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That if you ever miss an episode or if there's one you like
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And you want to share with a friend,
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There's a complete archive of the programs at aj now.com.
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You can watch the show again or share it
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With somebody
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That you want to share a message with
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And often ask about more content.
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What do i do other than aj?
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Now? well,
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One of the things we do is a podcast
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Called culture and christianity.
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In fact, i did a longer version of this conversation
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With taya kyle talking a bit more about her story
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And how she
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And her family overcame the tragic loss of a husband
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And a father.
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You can find that it's culture
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And christianity wherever you go.
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Get your podcast or on youtube.
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We've got wonderful technology,
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Makes it easy to share good news and today was good news.
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Thanks for spending a few minutes with us.
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I'm alan jackson. you have a wonderful evening.
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August 25, 2025 | 21:18

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