Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Ralph Sanchez
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR000117C
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00:01 The following program discusses sensitive issues
00:03 related to addictive behavior. 00:05 Parents are cautioned that some material 00:06 may be too candid for younger children. 00:13 Welcome back. 00:14 I just want to say before I turn it over to Ralph 00:17 and ask him a few things, few more things 00:20 I want to say if you are in a situation 00:22 where you are being hurt in anyway 00:24 we would have some number up on the credits, 00:26 please look for them, call someone, get some help. 00:29 I remember when I first met my husband 00:30 we were-- we were first married, 00:33 we were arguing about something 00:34 and he picked up a paper towel and he threw it at me. 00:37 I packed my bags and was calling the police 00:39 and I said you have no right to throw anything at me. 00:43 And the reason that was is 00:44 I was in domestic prior to that, 00:46 I knew that slipper slop 00:48 and I thought if it's a paper towel today 00:50 but it maybe something more tomorrow. 00:52 So have you those boundaries. 00:54 And you know what I'm talking about Ralph, for as that 00:57 but I want you to talk to, 00:59 if there somebody out there that is stuck right now 01:03 well, what would you say to him, her. 01:05 Well, the first thing I would ask you is, 01:09 you have a family, do you care about them? 01:13 And if you care about them, 01:15 if you love them as you say you do 01:17 or at least you tell yourself that how much. 01:20 That's the early questions 01:22 that's the beginning of everything else 01:23 that's gonna happen next. 01:25 If you are a perpetrator 01:26 of domestic violence in any regard 01:28 and that includes just yelling and screaming 01:32 I would say if you value your family 01:38 that you stop your whole life, 01:41 you get leave from work 01:43 and you go to your pastor if you have that resource. 01:47 You look up a psychologist in the phonebook. 01:50 You treat this like life and death 01:52 because you are destroying your family. 01:54 You have them and if you go 01:56 one moment longer from this moment 01:58 that I'm speaking to you now 02:01 you're perpetuating major spiritual damage at least 02:06 and you will never recover from it. 02:08 Its damage that can be all be unbroken. 02:10 And I love what you are saying is get help now 02:13 because you know that what's really amazing to me 02:16 is God wants to bring healing. 02:19 Not only to somebody 02:21 that is a victim of domestic violence, 02:24 a victim of abuse but he wants to bring 02:26 healing to the person that is perpetrating 02:28 because that person was damaged somewhere to 02:30 and God is saying, you know, what, 02:31 I want to bring everybody in a room 02:33 to a place of recovery. 02:35 I want families to be restored, I want people to be redeemed, 02:38 I want someone to walk out the door 02:40 and actually feel joy and not have to pretend. 02:43 I want you to sit at the table and laugh with each other 02:46 and have it be real and we can't do that 02:49 if we let all this stuff in our pockets. 02:50 All this anger and bitterness grow. 02:52 And there is help out there. 02:54 There's heavenly help from God 02:55 but there is help from each other, 02:56 there's help in your churches 02:57 and there's help in your community 02:59 so call someone. 03:00 Until next week always remember 03:02 that God is crazy about you, me too. 03:05 Don't do this alone, 03:07 don't let it continue another minute. 03:08 Get help and man, just praise God. |
Revised 2015-01-01