Cynthia Yanof: What Really Matters | Life Today

April 13, 2026 | 27:29

The author of “How’d I Miss That?” uses her own brand of humor to relate serious truths that enable us to see the truly important things.

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Cynthia yanof: i just hear the most excruciatingly loud, like
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Smashing noise, and it's like jolting, and i see shrapnel
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Flying, and i see sparks, and that's when i realized that the
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Clearance level on p2 is a lot higher for my suv, and p7 it's a
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Lot lower, and i was literally lodged between the ramp and the
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Roof of a parking garage.
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Randy robison: oh my gosh.
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Cynthia: yeah, so many things that feel basement level that
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Seem like they don't.
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Everything important is happening on the 45th floor, and
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The lord's like, no, like the basement-level stuff, it impacts
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Structural integrity of everything.
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Announcer: cynthia yanof, next.
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[music]
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Randy: welcome to "life today," i'm glad you're here.
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We're gonna have a good time.
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I don't want you to miss it.
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I don't know, you might say how did i miss that after the show?
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If you miss it, but cynthia yanof is our guest.
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It's just gonna make sense in a minute.
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I'm excited to have her, this is fun.
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Blynda lane: and yes, and "how'd i miss that?"
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Is the book title of cynthia.
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And what i love about this, i just have to point out that
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There is spinach in this woman's teeth, and i just have to tell
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You i am a spinach friend.
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I am, if you had spinach in your teeth, i would say, girl.
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Cynthia: you would tell me.
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Randy: i would tell you, i would tell you.
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Just i wanted to get that off the bat that we would be really
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Close friends.
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Cynthia: well, i'm glad you did, because yesterday at the
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Airport, tsa told me that my pants weren't all the
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Way zipped.
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So, there we are, everyone.
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And i was like, my book is aptly named, "how'd i miss that?"
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Blynda: how'd i miss that?
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Okay, but i love the book, because, i mean, you're so
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Funny, and you write so-- it's so well written.
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But what i really love about it is it takes kind of these big
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Concepts of all of these things maybe that we feel like we're
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Supposed to do in life, and you kind of bring it down and say,
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Really, it's some of the small things that can make the
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Biggest difference.
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Tell us the heart behind the book.
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Cynthia: right, well, i read a quote, and it's unknown in
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Source, so let's just call it mine now, but there's little
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Different, you know, people are basically the same, but there's
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A little difference that makes a big difference.
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And i think that's it.
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There's little differences in people, and i think about people
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Who have most impacted me.
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It's not, you know, the tiktok stars, it's not the people in
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Hollywood, but it's people that just lived life with just a
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Little twist and a little differently.
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The heart behind this book is that we are called to live
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Differently, and we think it's the big things that really it's
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The day-in, day-out, small things that impact people.
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Randy: what are the things that we miss?
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Cynthia: well, i mean, i've missed a lot, starting with
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Spinach and zippers, but yes, i would say, especially as
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Believers, love.
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Like, that is our brand as christians, right?
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If nike is just do it and subway is eat fresh, like we--the
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Greatest commandment, love the lord of god with all your heart,
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Soul, mind, strength, love your neighbor as yourself, and so
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Love is our brand.
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And i tell the story in the book, but i have a podcast, and
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I had an opportunity to interview somebody i was really
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Excited to interview, someone that has a brand that's based on
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Love and loving people well, and i was so excited for this
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Interview, and i mean, i studied harder for that than i did the
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Bar exam.
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I used to be a lawyer, and i was like ready for this thing, and
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So i get ready to go on, it's on zoom this particular interview,
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And this person's not there, and i wait and wait and finally,
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Long story short, they put me in touch, and i say to this person
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I don't know what happened, i'm just so sorry.
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Like, maybe we can reschedule, and this person's frustrated,
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They've been waiting and said i'm not rescheduling now
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Or ever.
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And here's the thing that's hard about that.
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Like, we all have a bad day, i get that, but if you build a
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Platform on love and you act unloving, it doesn't go
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Unnoticed, and i think that's how it is for us as believers.
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Every single day we have opportunities to show people
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What we're about and to show our brand, and it comes with delays,
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Untimely delays, and annoying people, and people that drive
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Bad and don't give us bonuses at work and all those things, and
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We just have these moments where we have to show up and show up
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In our brand.
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And i would say it's one of those things i've missed.
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I've been focused a lot of my life on what i do versus how i
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Do it, and how you do it matters, love matters.
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Randy: yeah, you know, the interesting thing about that,
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And when we hear something like that, you're 100% right, but we
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Just think, oh, well, gosh, i gotta love more, i'm gonna
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Try harder.
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But love, scripture says, is a fruit of the spirit, meaning
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It's a result, and so if we focus on the fruit, we're kind
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Of missing it.
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We focus on the root, which is abiding in christ, then you
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Can't stop the fruit, and that's the beautiful thing about love,
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Because i feel i can try, try, try, and you know?
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I have a question, though.
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Cynthia: okay, i'm ready.
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Randy: you said you used to be a lawyer.
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Cynthia: i did, and i would like to continue this interview
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Unless that's the showstopper.
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Is that what i--do i need to exit the premises?
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Randy: i do have some good lawyer jokes, but we'll leave
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Those on the table.
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Cynthia: afterwards.
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Randy: but how did did you get to where you're at now?
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Cynthia: right, well, that's a great question, one my husband
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Offers up quite frequently.
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But i would just say this, i went to law school, and i didn't
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Know what lawyers did.
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I thought it was like that show, "ally mcbeal," and i thought i
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Was just gonna wear cool clothes and meet a bunch of people, and
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It turns out that lawyers care about something i don't care
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About, the law.
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And so, i realized pretty quickly that was not my place,
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But in a matter of years, seven or eight years, and the lord
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Gave me what i knew, these words, but i had never
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Experienced that holy discontent, and i'd heard and
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Talked about all my life.
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I'm like what is this?
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And then i had that moment i was like, oh, wow, lord, i think
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There's something else.
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And so it was one of those moments where it was like open
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Palms of like whatever you want from me, lord, i want that, too,
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But also i'm a little scared, and that led us into foster
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Care, which led us into--i stopped working, and we got
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Involved with that.
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And then the lord opened the door with the ministry, and i
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Started podcasting.
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And here's the thing, nothing is wasted with the lord, because do
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You know what a podcast is?
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It's a deposition, and i know how to take a deposition.
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You ask questions, you listen, you ask a few more questions.
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Well, i've taken 1,000 depositions when i was a lawyer,
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And i was like, okay, the lord wastes nothing.
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And so i do podcasts, they're just not--they don't quite pay
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Like a deposition used to, but we're good, everyone, it's fine.
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Randy: and you don't lock anyone up at the end of your podcast.
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Cynthia: i don't, if it goes well.
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Randy: yeah, nobody goes to jail, that's good.
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Blynda: okay, so you just hit on something about foster care, and
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I know that's a big part of your story and your life.
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How did you get into that whole realm of the heart for
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Fostering and then what turned into adoption, correct?
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Cynthia: yes, yes, well, i always say we're just like the
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Most unlikely candidates, and i wanna be the person that's like
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We just knew and were like, yes, lord, we're all in.
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I was like, oh my gosh, what?
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Like that's for like missionaries or people that are
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In the handbell choir.
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Like, this is for, like, really serious, like, not us.
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We let our kids play sports on sunday, so i don't think we're
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The people, okay?
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And the lord is very persistent, and he's like, no, we're gonna
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Do this thing.
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And so we did all the paperwork, and we got licensed, and i mean,
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There's so much i could say, but i would say this, one, i don't
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Find the lord to be subtle when he's calling you to do something
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Of significance, and that at that time in our life was what
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He was calling us to, and he was not subtle.
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But i also know we went into it scared to death.
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I was scared spiritually, financially, emotionally.
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I mean, if there was a way to be scared of something, i was
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Scared of it.
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I was scared for my bio kids, and i would say i went in scared
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Of it, and i came out scared of who our family would be if we
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Hadn't done it.
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Because you're changed people when you do the things of god,
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You're changed when you show up.
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And even with the most reluctant yes, which is what we gave, it
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Wasn't like we're all in lord.
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It was like, oh, man, okay, and we're different.
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Like, we prayed over the crib of a newborn baby we barely knew
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Night after night and begged god, like cried over a crib as a
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Family, and begged god to do something merciful, because we
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Knew this wasn't going to turn out well.
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We went to parts of town, honestly that we've been
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Avoiding, and we went to cps offices and my kids, my bio kids
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Were entered into stories they had no idea existed with kids
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With everything they owned in a trash bag, and i just think, my
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Goodness, thank you, lord, for giving us an off-ramp to our
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First-world life and showing us like, yes, we ended up adopting
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A little boy who's ten now, which means for--those of you
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Of my age, you understand i'm doing math facts and menopause,
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And that's nobody's best, i'll tell you that right now.
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But i will say all these years later, i look back, i'm like we
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Know a different version of the lord than we would have
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Otherwise, and i wanna do what the lord created me to do.
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I want my family--if this is the time the lord put us here
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From beginning of time to second coming, like he's not a god
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Of chance.
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We are here right now, all of us, for these chances for the
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Opportunities for what he created us to do before we took
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One breath, like don't miss that.
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And to the heart of the book, "how'd i miss that?"
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I can look back on a lot of places where i'm like, not from
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Regret, but i mean time is limited, like, right?
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It's a vapor, and i don't wanna miss it anymore.
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So, that's one of those occasions i'd rather talk about
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When i feel like we didn't miss it than the many times that i'm
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Like, oh.
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Blynda: well, and you even speak about that we have two options,
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Building our life for the applause of others, or building
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Our life for eternity, for things that are gonna matter.
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And so when you say your best yes to god, even if it's in
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Something so out of what you thought it would be like
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Fostering to adopt, we know that there's blessing in it every
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Time you say yes to god.
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Cynthia: right, absolutely.
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And the challenge is, is that we live in a culture, we live in a
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World that tells us everything's urgent.
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I mean, i feel that, i don't know if you do.
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I'm sure you do, the urgency, especially as a mom, the urgency
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Of getting my kids in the right college or for having the
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Retirement fund or a second house or whatever is urgent, and
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I'm just finding the older i get that what the world calls urgent
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Rarely intersects with what the lord calls eternal.
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And so there's a point where you have to say, am i gonna chase
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After what's urgent?
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It will take all of your time, or am i gonna chase after
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What's eternal?
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And there's a moment in time, i think, where you have to look at
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That day by day and say, okay, like, what's gonna matter?
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What really is significant long-term?
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And so i think that's just that daily balance, and sometimes we
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Get it, and sometimes we miss it.
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Randy: all right, i have to ask you, there's a lot of great
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Stories in the book, and i got kind of my list.
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Is there anyone that you like to tell, one that jumps out that
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Kind of makes a strong point that you're trying
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To communicate?
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Cynthia: yeah, i would say one of my favorites is when i was a
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Lawyer, i was disgruntled and not very good at my job, because
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I didn't know what lawyers did, and i hated the law, remember
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That part?
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And so i was driving to work one day, and i just on the phone and
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Drinking a diet coke, because i always have a diet coke, and i'm
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Driving, and i always parked on p2, but my kids had made me late
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So i go to p3, p4, p5, and finally around p7, i just hear
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The most excruciatingly loud, like smashing noise, and it's
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Like jolting, and i see shrapnel flying, and i see sparks, and
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All of a sudden then it's silent, my diet coke flies
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Across, and i'm like, oh my gosh.
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And so i get the nerve after i check, everything's still
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Intact, i get out, and i'm like what happened?
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And that's when i realized that the clearance level on p2 is a
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Lot higher for my suv, and p7 it's a lot lower, and i was
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Literally lodged between the ramp and the roof of a
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Parking garage.
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Randy: oh my gosh.
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Cynthia: yeah, and so there i sat, and by the way, there's
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Nothing in your owner's manual that tells you what to do when
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You lodge your car like a missile into a parking garage,
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And the attendants finally came, and they were nice.
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They asked if i was okay, and then they laughed, and so there
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We sat, and i waited and waited and finally went up to them as
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They're talking and with only the tone a woman can that's
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Wearing half a can of diet coke and, you know, has totally
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Destroyed her car, i'm like what's taking so long?
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I mean, i have a job on the 45th floor, right?
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In this high-rise in downtown dallas.
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What's taking so long?
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And they let me know this is even more horrifying.
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They had to call in a structural engineer, because i had become a
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Load-bearing wall, and i look back on that time, and i laugh a
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Lot kind of now after many years, but also so many things
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That feel basement level that seem like they don't--
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Everything important is happening on the 45th floor, and
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The lord's like, no, like the basement-level stuff, it impacts
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Structural integrity of everything.
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And i can look back on my life, and i can see a lot of places
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Where there was basement-level things the lord's like we've got
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To work on some humility, we've got to work on some forgiveness,
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We've got to work on how are we loving?
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We gotta live on mission.
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Like, i feel like the lord worked so mightily in basement,
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And all i wanted was the 45th floor.
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And just so you know, they did get my car out.
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I don't know if anybody cares how that happened, but here's
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The quick version of that.
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They brought in a guy named manny, and they were like as
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Soon as manny gets here, we've cleared a structural engineer.
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Manny was a really large fellow, like really large, and they let
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Out the air of the tires, and manny's whole job was to jump on
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The side of my suv on the running board, and his weight
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With the air coming out lowered enough to give me freedom from
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The garage.
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Blynda: oh my goodness.
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Cynthia: and sometimes when i speak i get to tell people like,
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Listen, i don't wanna liken myself to the fat guy on your
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Running board, but i kind of wanna jump up and down and say,
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Like, listen, this is what matters.
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If you want freedom, then you gotta believe the small
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Things matter.
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You've gotta believe the everyday decisions of
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Faithfulness, they matter.
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And so, yeah, that's the story.
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Blynda: where was it in your life or in your story that you
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Began seeing god has made me gifted in a way to have an
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Ability to see every story, every--because he said what's
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Your favorite story, and you told one that is like really
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Hard, inconvenient, it ruined your car, and i'm like where
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Does it come from to be able to make something great about every
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Story and to be able to really teach it and make it almost a
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Life lesson for someone?
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Cynthia: yeah, i mean, i think it's time and
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Perspective, right?
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I think that's part of it is, is you--in the moment that's not
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Funny to me, right?
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But it takes a little time, it takes some perspective.
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I also grew up in a home where humor was currency, and so if
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You can't laugh at yourself, then it was gonna be a long
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Road, and, you know, our love language in my current home with
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My kids is sarcasm.
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That's just how we--that's what we speak in our home, and i
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Just--i feel like this.
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I grew up in a really strong faith-filled home, and i'm so
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Grateful for that, but i also grew up thinking that faith
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Needs to look a certain way, and it was serious, and it is
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Serious, i understand that, but if god's not in the in-between
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And the funny and the off-script stuff, then we're in trouble,
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Because 90% is off-script, in-between, didn't go as
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Planned, and so for me, i feel like the lord has given me these
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Constant reminders of like, "i use all things for your good and
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My glory," all things.
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And so i like to just kind of step back and look at those
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Things and say, okay, lord, like what do we take from this?
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How can we get spiritual truth from the ordinary?
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Blynda: i love it.
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Randy: i've heard a lot of great sermons on the true deep meaning
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Of, you know, man makes plans and god laughs and what that
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Actually means.
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I think he literally laughs.
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Cynthia: literally, i hope so, right.
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Randy: but so the foundational things that you talk about, we
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Like to cut corners, and you also tell a story about where
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Cutting corners can get you, and if we don't deal with those very
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Foundational things, it can come back to bite us as it did one
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Home builder.
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Cynthia: right, right, i mean, the gist of the story is like a
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Sermon illustration, but a guy who built homes for a living,
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And at last he retired, and the boss said one more house.
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He's like, oh my gosh, i'm done, i'm retired, and he said one
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More, so the guy did it, and he kind of cut corners and didn't
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Use the same craftsmanship, all those things, and at the end the
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Boss said, okay, here's the keys, you were building it for
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Yourself, and you know he's dying, like, oh my gosh, i cut
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Corners on the one house they're giving to me.
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But that house looked the same as all the others from the
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Outside, and that resonates with me, because i feel like in my
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Life i've built two homes.
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I feel like the first 30-plus years of my life was a home that
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Looks very similar to the one i live in now, metaphorically
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Speaking, but it was a home where some corners were cut, and
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I cared--there's some pride issues, and there was some
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Self-sufficiency and some achievement, all of those
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Things, and i feel like the lord was very gracious to do a little
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Demolition and break down some things and say, like, this isn't
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A home worth living in.
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And then you get a little older, you get a little perspective,
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And then you rebuild, right?
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And yeah, they look the same, but at the end of the day, like
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If you have foundation problems, you can throw a rug on it, but
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It's still a foundation problem, right?
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And the lord really works through some of those
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Foundational issues, and it's painful, and it's difficult, and
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You have to play the long game, but only then are you building a
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House that's really worth living in.
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Blynda: so, in the book, you talk about generosity, like, i
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Think about your life, and you've really live a generous
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Life in the sense of you chose to do something for the lord,
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You gave up the the law practice, you decided to to go
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Into this, now you've adopted a child, and where did that heart
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Of generosity come from?
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Cynthia: you know, i think my parents are very
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Generous people.
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I think i've been subject to a lot of generosity and people
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Around me, not just financial.
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I think the most generous people are generous in ways that are
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Not necessarily financial even, but generous in their words,
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Generous in giving me second chances, generous in giving me
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Opportunities i did not deserve.
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But i think if you look at our whole story as believers, you
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Think about a god from genesis to revelation that over and over
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And over pursued his people at all costs, and he made a way
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Back to him all the way through jesus, right?
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Who dies on the cross for us.
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I mean, he leaves the 99 for the 1, and we're the 1.
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Like what kind of generosity is that?
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How do you not live out of that overflow?
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And i think it's easy to miss that.
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I miss it a lot, but if you really think about the story,
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That's our story, then how do you not live generously?
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And so i think for me, it was always a financial thing, it was
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A sermon, you know, twice a year when they're under budget, and
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So i think that challenge in my life has been how do i live
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Generously even outside of finances?
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What's a generous word i can give?
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What's a way that i can generously include people in my
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Home, make memories with people?
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I've really hopefully worked on our kids on who are the kids
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That don't have somebody?
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Who can we love well that doesn't have--i don't even mean
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Financially, but doesn't have the social wealth or whatever
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Those things are.
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And so just showing there's lots of different forms of
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Generosity, and we live out of an overflow of generosity, and
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That changes everything.
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Blynda: seeing those who aren't always seen.
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Cynthia: right, right.
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Randy: yeah, i mean, the scripture is abundant when it
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Comes to the poor, poverty, our generosity, and you're
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100% right.
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I gotta just be honest and let people know that when i have
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Given of myself in every way, including finances, i haven't
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Always gotten richer from it.
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I've been poor financially but rich in spirit, and i think
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That's what true generosity looks like, true prosperity
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Looks like.
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It's a richness of of spirit, and so you've lived that.
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Cynthia: we have an opportunity to be generous day in and day
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Out and show up, and we don't know people's story, but they
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All have one.
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I have one, y'all have one, so yeah.
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Randy: so good, thank you, cynthia.
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Blynda: "how'd i miss that?", cynthia yanof.
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Randy: a lot of fun.
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Blynda: this is-- it's such a fun read.
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Like it's--you're just so funny.
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That's just the best thing i can say.
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You are, you're just funny.
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So thank you for joining us today.
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It's been such a pleasure.
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Cynthia: thank you for having me.
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Randy: where can they see your podcast?
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I want people to follow you.
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Cynthia: it's called "messmerized," and it has two
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Esses, like mess.
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Life is a mess, so "messmerized."
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And yeah, wherever you listen to podcasts, you can grab it there.
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Randy: "messmerized" with cynthia yanof.
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Great, we appreciate you being here.
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Cynthia: thank you.
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Randy: we appreciate you guys being here.
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Come back, we'll see you next time here on "life today."
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Jennifer rothschild: hi, i'm jennifer, and i've been blind
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Since i was a teenager.
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I've got two boys.
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Well, raising kids as a blind mom was challenging, as you
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Can imagine.
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One of the hardest things was not being able to drive my kids
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To school.
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But thankfully, miss pat helped with that.
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So, miss pat was this lovely woman who would drive our kids
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Back and forth to school, and one day she was driving my son
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Connor home from preschool.
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Now, connor was only four years old at the time, and he was
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Strapped in the back seat, and miss pat was driving, and miss
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Pat told me the story how connor, as he's almost home,
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They're about to pull in the driveway, and connor says, "miss
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Pat, why doesn't my mommy drive me to school?"
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Well, pat told me she was a little confused as to how to
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Answer, because she knew that connor realized i was blind, and
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So she tried to "explain, well, you know, connor, your mom
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Can't see.
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You know, connor, your mom can't drive because she's blind."
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And connor, with complete comfort and childlike innocence
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And confidence said, "oh yeah, my mom walks by faith and not
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By sight."
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And he was right.
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His mom literally walks by faith and not by sight.
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But you know what?
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All of us on this side of eternity, when we are in christ,
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We do walk by faith and not by sight.
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But the beautiful thing, my friend, is that someday our
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Faith will become sight.
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Someday, when we pass from this life into heaven, our faith
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Literally will become our sight.
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That's what revelation 22, verse 4 teaches us, that we will
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Literally see his face, and his name will be on our foreheads.
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So, if you're walking this path of faith right now and it's
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Rough and it's taking twists and turns that you never
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Anticipated, can i encourage you?
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The journey is worth it.
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Keep walking by faith.
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Be faithful as you walk step by step, because someday, someday
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There will come a day when you take your final step from this
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Side to the next.
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You will step fully into your glorious unending, when your
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Faith becomes sight, and you will see jesus, and you
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Know what?
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I have a feeling that when you and i get to heaven and we
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Really do see jesus, everything that came before that might have
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Been difficult, that might have been hard, when we get to see
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Jesus, it will all pale and fade into the shadows compared to the
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Glorious beauty of literally seeing him face to face.
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Right now, you and i, we see through a glass darkly, but
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Someday, we will see him face to face.
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So, keep walking by faith, my friend, until your faith
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Becomes sight.
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April 13, 2026 | 27:29

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