Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Brad Peters
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR000112B
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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, I love for one introducing you 00:17 to Brad kind of bringing him in 00:19 and talking about his journey but this particular thing 00:23 that get you scared me 'cause not only did you get here 00:26 with this possible Parkinson's 00:29 where more than likely gonna be looking at that, 00:32 I've been called some friends and said you know, 00:35 Shelly Quinn called and said, you know, 00:38 here's some suffer Parkinson's that may take the tremors down 00:41 and we tried it and it work but you were talking, 00:44 well, you were scaring me, 00:46 go ahead and continue on the journey. 00:48 What was interesting is that 00:49 and yet again since we're talking about exercise 00:52 and we talked about the bike riding 00:53 and stuff like that you know and that was something 00:55 I was doing was bike riding, riding the bikes 00:57 but it was crazy 00:59 to have actually been on some bike rides 01:01 and had been so deep into the dark place of depression 01:04 and dealing with them, I ever gonna play the trumpet again 01:07 and manages the Parkinson's and you know 01:09 there's Focal Dystonia thing and all this stuff 01:12 where I would be riding alone, 01:13 going okay there's a truck right there you know, 01:15 it'd be easy enough to just make this look like an accident 01:18 and you could collect the insurance money 01:19 and you'd be better off. 01:21 I mean, I was too place in my life where that was, 01:25 how close it was and fortunately every time 01:28 that happened it was like, man, you better pull your bike over 01:30 and check yourself right now. 01:31 You better just stop. 01:32 You better just stop right in, right now 01:33 because you know, you don't really intend to do that 01:35 but I would have never had that thought ever. 01:38 I would have never had that thought. 01:39 The first time you told me that those are kind of the thoughts 01:43 that you were having is I just pleaded with God. 01:46 God, I don't know how to reach Him right now 01:49 because you had, it's really interesting 01:51 'cause your identity was tied up in that 01:54 and even to the point where the devil was telling you 01:56 that if you are not this, 01:58 not even your family's gonna love you, 01:59 they are not gonna need you, they're not gonna-- 02:01 why you can't so-- you can't take care of them, 02:05 you can't even help with rent or mortgage or anything. 02:08 And so the devil was taking you out in every single way. 02:11 And as your wife I couldn't reach you anymore. 02:13 It was really a tough time. 02:15 Well, and from the ministry stand point 02:17 'cause I was like, oh, I'm gonna join you in ministry 02:20 and well, I had tried, I really wasn't functioning, 02:23 I almost couldn't function 02:25 and so I was bringing nothing to the table. 02:28 You know, and from that capacity so I was interesting 02:30 to be in a place or you ever feel like 02:32 you have nothing, hey, you're worthless. 02:35 What was, to me, fascinating was 02:37 we came to a camp meeting here at 3ABN 02:40 and I was starting to make some progress out of that, 02:44 we'll talk a little bit about that but it was interesting 02:46 to be talking when J.D. and Pastor Joe 02:49 and just saying, you know, I've never been in a place 02:51 where I've had nothing been reduced to absolutely nothing 02:54 and have them say good, now God can start working with you. 02:57 It was so-- so it was you're like, 02:59 what are you talking about God? It's hard. 03:02 It's hard, it's hard to speak practically, 03:04 the recovery side of it in sense it 03:06 is supposed to be about exercise. 03:08 And people maybe wondering what this is about 03:10 and there's a story behind this right here. 03:14 You know, when I finally kind of came to the place, 03:16 okay, I am depressed, I have these things going on 03:18 and the first thing I did was go get a physical. 03:20 I didn't had a physical and I don't know how long 03:22 so I wanted to make sure that, 03:24 there were no underlying other medical conditions 03:26 other than knowing that Parkinson's 03:28 is probably a part of that. 03:30 My colleague told me about a guy 03:32 who work with Focal Dystonia, he's a trumpet player 03:34 who had it and so I actually Skype 03:37 to a guy in Sweden and got some help. 03:40 And the things that he gave me were very, very beneficial. 03:44 And also there was somebody in ministry 03:47 that was working with Parkinson's 03:49 that took some Amantadine Sulphate 03:51 you got prescribed from Loma Linda. 03:53 So we got that. 03:54 We got that, you mention that and that tip came from Shelly 03:57 and started doing that and so my GP just looked at me 04:01 and he said, okay, you're 56-years-old 04:04 and if you're baseball player 04:06 what'd you be doing in the off season. 04:08 Preparing for the season coming. 04:10 If you are a football player. 04:11 If you were any kind of athlete what would you be doing? 04:13 You'd be preparing for what you're doing. 04:14 So what have you been physically to prepare 04:16 for your season of playing the trumpet, 04:18 'cause it's a physical thing. 04:20 And all of a sudden I'm going 04:21 well, I've had this natural talent wherever 04:24 we never had to do anything. 04:26 And so all the sudden it was like, 04:28 oh, well, oh, yeah, guys lose muscle after, 04:30 what about 20 years old, 04:31 it's starting to beat down for older guys, right. 04:34 You just shock somebody that's watching. 20? 04:38 It's earlier for guys than for girls, 04:40 I'm just letting you know. 04:42 And so I was interesting to get to that place 04:44 so part of my recovery was 04:46 I actually needed to start exercising physically. 04:51 And so to me this is kind of a funny thing is some time, 04:55 not too long after I kind of starting 04:57 to make some progress back as we done 04:59 a little bit of the playing 05:00 with the help and another things. 05:03 Starting to let God tell you 05:05 that your identity is not in your trumpet, 05:07 you're a man of God and your identity is in Me. 05:10 'Cause I watch God do that, it was amazing 05:12 to watch Him love on you and say, you know what 05:15 you're value for me as now you're trumpet playing. 05:18 Even though He likes that about you. 05:19 Exactly, exactly. 05:21 To me it was really interesting and another thing 05:24 in this came from Shelly and I can't remember 05:26 what her conversation was but she was talking about something 05:30 and mentioned Numbers Chapter 10. 05:34 And needless to say the trumpet has 05:36 just as tiny little role in the Bible, right. 05:38 It only shows up once or twice. 05:40 Oh, not true. Shows up for everywhere. 05:42 Oh, wait a minute. Oh, that's right. 05:43 Oh, that's right, at the end of the time 05:45 Gabriel's gonna be playing a violin. 05:48 Oh, sorry, wait the end plagues were announced by an Obo. 05:51 Oh, wait a minute, now that was a trumpet, too. 05:53 Okay. Wait a minute. 05:55 Early on the guys who went out 05:57 in front of the soldiers were the tambourine players. 06:00 Oh, wait now those are trumpet players, too. 06:02 So its amazing to look at the role of the trumpet 06:06 in the Bible and the significance that it has 06:09 and then start looking at, wait a minute, I play the trumpet 06:12 and so she did this thing with Numbers 10:10 06:15 where it was interesting to look at, 06:16 the first written record of trumpets kind of 06:20 modern day trumpets really or hammered metal trumpets 06:23 Moses was commanded to make two silver hammer trumpets. 06:26 This is not a show for, this is not a ram sound, 06:28 these are metal trumpets. 06:29 Then it goes on to say that 06:31 only priests can play the trumpets. 06:33 So I'm thinking, oh, I'm supposed to be in my journey, 06:36 oh, I'm called to be the priest of my household, 06:39 so I'm the trumpet player, I'm kind of looking all this stuff. 06:41 And then what was interesting too was to look at okay, 06:44 the trumpet definitely is for signaling and signaling, 06:46 warning to the things like that but at the end of chapter 10, 06:50 it starts to talk about play the trumpet in times of joy 06:54 and at your festivals to remind God of His covenant with you. 07:00 Isn't that amazing? 07:01 That He's covenant with you, 07:02 excuse me I would just, I like to remind you. 07:07 And you're doming. I'm just saying. 07:09 Exactly, exactly. How incredible is that? 07:12 It was amazing and what was really fun for me was-- 07:14 After year do you believe the trumpets are played? 07:16 I mean, there's all, all of that is so huge. 07:20 Well, and then to start going into the idea of 07:24 I need to get fit, right, we need to exercise 07:26 and you talked about exercise being physical 07:28 and we will get to this but you know 07:30 we have to exercise our spirituality as well 07:33 and I think its easy to forget one of those 07:36 or both of those or you start doing one 07:37 you forget the other and you do this one 07:39 and you forget that one, you get tied up with this. 07:41 It's hard sometimes when you feel like you have nothing 07:44 to even get yourself to open up the Bible. 07:47 I mean, it's hard you know, I'm telling you 07:49 for those people who have been depressed you understand 07:51 and been in this place you know, you can't get out of bed. 07:53 You can sleep for 14 hours and you get up for half hour 07:56 and go get something to eat 07:57 and go right back to bed sleep for 12 hours. 07:59 You're just tired, you exhausted 08:00 all that stuff going on. 08:01 But was interesting is as I started to come out of this 08:05 and do it through exercise, trying to eat well, 08:09 I tried some antidepressant medication 08:11 and it made me feel horrible, I-- maybe heavy words 08:15 it was like times so not doing this because its terrible. 08:18 Yeah, it says depression on it maybe that means 08:20 if you take it you get depressed, I don't know. 08:23 You did, you were horrible on it. 08:25 I was horrible. So it went away and-- 08:26 He forgot how to talk I mean, it was terrible. 08:28 And my mom had sent me something which is really cool, 08:30 I love how you get messages from different places 08:32 and God will talk to you through different people 08:35 and different things if you just have your eyes open. 08:36 She sent me a book about depression general overview 08:39 and at the end it says oh, 30 to 60 minutes of 08:42 vigorous exercise daily can be as effective as any medicine. 08:47 You know, and so I thought okay, I'm gonna do that. 08:50 And so what was interesting was to get my way worked 08:53 out of that and understand that 08:56 exercising now is part of my daily life 08:58 and the things I have to do regularly. 09:00 It's really curious to find out because I know maintenance 09:04 right, maintaining what we do is, 09:06 and so I have to maintain exercise, 09:08 I need to maintain my time in the word 09:10 and so that you know, God can be talking to me 09:13 and guiding me with all that. 09:15 It's really interesting with physical exercise 09:18 if I stop doing something 09:20 how quickly I can see it in my muscle. 09:22 And so you know, I wish we could do that spiritually 09:24 'cause we can't and you know, it's like all of a sudden 09:27 the devil kind of puts a little fear there, little doubt there 09:30 and little anger here or whatever 09:33 and God says daily you got to stay in touch with Me 09:35 'cause just like your physical exercise 09:37 there's daily changes that happen when you let this go. 09:41 Yeah, and so it was fun, it was fun was knowing 09:43 that maintenance was about what we're doing, 09:45 yes, of course, I was trying to be prepared for today 09:49 and so I had a chance to do little bit of study coming over 09:52 and stuff and it was really the fun to find out 09:54 and I found this generalities within 09:56 what God's asking for us, it's just kind of 09:58 an Old Testament concept about maintenance 10:00 and a New Testament concept about maintenance. 10:02 But I love this one in Solomon 10:04 He talks about asking God to maintain their coast 10:08 God is maintaining us in the Old Testament 10:10 and I love this one where it says 10:12 when they are battling their enemies, amen 10:14 our addictions or depressions or whatever it is, or fears, 10:18 whatever it may be to maintain their cause after their sin 10:22 and returning to Him, right, so we repent 10:25 and we say you know, I'm so good 10:27 and you know, its like maintain their cause 10:28 or maintain, just help maintain them. 10:30 And then God will maintain it. 10:32 I love when you said that the first time. 10:33 Yeah, and then give them each day 10:36 what they require for that day which again 10:38 with that daily maintenance is about that whole thing. 10:41 And so I just, when I read that I thought, 10:43 oh, how cool is that because that's what I need, 10:45 I need the daily thing in my darkest hour 10:48 You will maintain me when I stumble to stand backup 10:51 You are still there for me and then everyday 10:54 You'll give me what I need which is really cool. 10:56 And you're doing that and I love the fact 10:59 I'm watching you do that 11:00 with some pretty serious things coming down the pike. 11:04 You know, so you know, like, you were talking about 11:06 you know, what happens when we have cancer or Parkinson's 11:09 or all of the sudden something changes 11:11 I don't have control over this, 11:13 I may or may not have healing here 11:15 'cause only God knows that and I trust Him with that, 11:19 but as we head down those things who am I? 11:22 Where is my identity? 11:23 'Cause now it's so clear that your identity is in God. 11:27 Is in God. Yeah. 11:28 And standing next to you in ministry 11:29 and what does that called for, it's really pretty amazing. 11:32 So, so I don't know how many people 11:35 are familiar with this and what this is? 11:37 That was a funniest story ever. 11:38 This is it, this is it, so I, you know, 11:40 I'm doing little better in stuff 11:42 and I just called to see what you're doing 11:43 and I say, oh, hey, baby, what are you doing? 11:45 I'm traveling. No, you're not. 11:46 You said, oh, I'm at the store, shopping. 11:48 And my response was, oh, make sure 11:50 you buy your husband a lovely gift. 11:52 I mean, isn't that what you would say, 11:53 right, if your wife is shopping. 11:54 That's it and he's never said that. Its 25 years. 11:56 Twenty five years, I believe you don't say that. 11:57 And he said that this day. 11:58 And so she happens to be at a store 12:00 that features kitchen and bath items. 12:03 Yeah. 12:04 And so she's walking around, okay, 12:05 I'm supposed to buy him a lovely gift. 12:07 What in the world am I gonna get him here 12:09 and she's walking around 12:10 and there's a stack of shake weights-- 12:12 Let me just tell this part and then I get back to you. 12:15 So I'm walking around and I see this stack of shake weight 12:18 and they are just ridiculous, when they first came out they, 12:21 people made jokes about them, they're so ridiculous. 12:23 And God says, get him that. 12:25 And I thought, oh, that's got to be a joke, 12:27 there's no way, you know. 12:29 So I walked away tried to find something else, 12:31 God brought me back and He said, no, no, get him that. 12:34 And finally I thought, okay, because I felt it was 12:36 so clearly from God, so I bought him that, 12:38 put it on the kitchen table when I got home. 12:41 Brad comes down-- 12:42 I come downstairs in the morning and there's like, 12:44 there's like shake weight on a table and I'm like, what? 12:48 That is the most ridiculous thing, I mean, I can't, I can't 12:51 this was like the laughing stock of the exercise world. 12:54 I mean, what in-- 12:55 Didn't so because people made fun of it so much. 12:56 Yeah, that's why you see them for you know, 12:58 three dollars on the discount table 13:00 you know, and all that kind of stuff. 13:01 What in the world would I possibly do with this? 13:03 Okay, I'm trying hard to connect emotionally 13:06 with my wife, she brought me this thing, 13:08 if I don't take it out of the box 13:11 I'm gonna be in big trouble. 13:14 So I take it out of the box and I grab it with my hands 13:18 and I put it like this 13:21 and what position are my hands in, 13:23 you could take the shake weight out and put what in my hands? 13:27 A trumpet. A trumpet. 13:28 And so I started going like this and I realized this thing 13:32 is working the entire skeletal muscular structure 13:36 that has been shaking like crazy 13:38 every time I pick up my trumpet. 13:40 And so if I start doing this everyday 13:42 I'm gonna be working all those muscles, 13:44 they're gonna get stronger, they're gonna get more powerful 13:46 they're not gonna shake because they're being used 13:47 and used in a proper way. 13:49 And it is the most amazing gift. 13:51 You do it everyday? I do it everyday. 13:53 And you know it's from God, I mean, both of us realized 13:55 when you picked it up and I saw that your hands 13:59 were in the form of trumpet, I wanted to say 14:02 can I grab God and kiss Him on the face. 14:03 How does He do that? 14:05 I know, it's amazing, it's amazing to try and figure out 14:07 how does He know those kinds of things. 14:09 And so that, you know that-- 14:10 And it is His love for us so personal. 14:13 Oh, it's just, it's absolutely unbelievable. 14:16 And so that part really you know, 14:18 is looking at those steps about maintaining 14:20 what's it take and that maintenance 14:22 you know, to me it's like I start to understand 14:25 that the idea of one exercising and this is real care 14:29 and this has been coming to me a lot lately 14:31 so I have a chance to say it right now. 14:33 You know, we get so caught up, 14:35 oh, I have to spend time in worship 14:36 and I have to spend time on my job 14:37 and I have to spend time here. 14:40 We believe that our body is the temple, 14:43 you know, that we have this connection 14:45 that really our spirituality 14:48 and our physical being are completely intervolving. 14:52 And yet, somehow for many of us the physical side of our-- 14:57 Journey. 14:58 Journey gets left really till, 15:00 way late till at the end of the day or whatever, 15:02 I don't really have time, I don't have this. 15:04 And I'm back to this in my mind 15:06 and its coming more clear all the time. 15:08 If we get ourselves physically fit 15:11 we can communicate with God better, 15:13 we can do whatever job it is 15:14 and whatever job that is you're gonna do it better, 15:17 you're gonna be able to relate to your spouse better, 15:19 your gonna be able to all this stuff better 15:21 and its just, its we've really lost sight of that 15:26 and if we believe that connection, 15:28 our spiritual connection really isn't tied 15:29 into what we do physically. 15:32 Well, you know, you even, as you say that 15:33 what's really interesting is for some people 15:36 they know that I just diagnosed with Celiacs disease 15:39 and they literally removed all of my guts 15:42 and then put them back in to tell me that-- 15:43 I know, I was there. I know its so ridiculous. 15:46 But you know, so even now I don't realize 15:49 that even what we eat really effects our entire body 15:54 and as much as I've tried to resist that all my life, 15:57 because I just not that disciplined as that exercise 16:00 and what we eat and drinking water 16:02 and laughing out loud with our families, 16:04 like its important to do those things 16:06 as important as anything else we do. 16:09 And so if we're gonna maintain our recovery 16:11 and we start to let those things go we're in trouble. 16:14 We're in trouble. We really are in trouble. 16:15 Yeah, and it's interesting I think in our youth 16:19 were probably were able the resilient seed of our youth 16:23 allows us to get away with a lot of things. 16:25 But as we chronologically advance in life-- 16:29 I like the way you say that, yes. 16:31 Nicely enough. 16:33 You know, that suddenly the significance 16:36 and the importance of the exercise side of it 16:40 and I, is much greater. 16:42 I mean, it's just, it's absolutely moving forward. 16:45 I'm convinced, you know, that we need 16:47 to continue her growth both in the word 16:50 but then that the idea of being physically fit 16:52 and choosing the right foods and all that stuff 16:55 and it's really interesting 'cause generally 16:57 we've had a pretty healthy diet 16:59 but now with the Celiacs all of a sudden 17:00 its taken to another level and you really can't cheat 17:04 'cause when you cheat you open a door-- 17:06 Oh, you know what, I'm gonna open 17:07 that for questions but I'm mad at you. Are you? 17:09 And I'm gonna say it on television because I can. 17:12 Is that I have Celiacs 17:15 and I supposed to be really careful, right. 17:17 And we go into a restaurant and I'm thinking 17:18 I'm so cheating and cheating to me, 17:21 now that is meant I'm going to have a vegetarian burrito 17:25 with a flour tortilla. 17:27 I mean, that's like cheating. 17:28 And so everything is good except I have a flour tortilla, 17:31 Brad's like, you're so not gonna have that. 17:33 I'm gonna have that. He walks out of the restaurant. 17:36 And I'm thinking I'm still having it 17:38 and I was sicker than a dog for like a week. 17:40 So I shouldn't have had it but all of that matters 17:43 and so we don't get nailed with things like, we don't, 17:47 not do our devotions and then get sick for a week. 17:49 We don't, not exercising get sick for a week. 17:52 Some of us deal with our diseases 17:54 but man, God says you know what, 17:56 in a spiritual sense you do take yourself out for a while. 18:00 And so if we're gonna maintain a recovery, 18:01 let's maintain a recovery and be smart about it 18:04 'cause everything matters and it's so cool when you say, 18:07 you know, what, I'm gonna actually take care of myself. 18:11 I'm gonna help God along with this. 18:13 I mean, I open up for questions if they, 18:15 my client now, you had a question. 18:18 Yeah, I can really relate to what you're saying, 18:20 being a musician myself, I play the piano a little bit 18:23 and just wondering when you'd mention 18:26 the you were like 250 pounds or something, 18:29 at one time what kind of a program 18:31 did you use to help bring the weight down? 18:36 Well, this is I think it's funny 18:37 because when you ride a bicycle 18:39 and that kind of thing, you have to get the stuff 18:41 that goes with it, right. 18:42 And the first thing is Spandex bike shorts. 18:45 You do look really adorable. 18:47 Oh, yeah, but this is, you know, so we're walking 18:49 and we have a shop that we're getting our stuff 18:51 and you know, he gets me a pair and I go in the dressing room 18:53 when I put them on and all they could hear from outside 18:56 and the thing is I'm fat, really aloud. 19:01 And so I really, it's funny I mean, 19:05 calories in and calories out, right. 19:07 So if you start exercising and you get hungry 19:09 and you eat a bunch more food your weight may not go down. 19:12 So its really about, really trying to make good choices 19:14 about what I ate, how much I ate, when I ate it you know, 19:18 and then starting to increase the exercise side of it 19:21 and you know, I mean, its continued to come off 19:24 which has been great, it wasn't you know, 19:25 didn't like just boom all of a sudden. 19:27 It wasn't the speed weight loss but overtime its comedown 19:30 and its continuing to go down so-- 19:32 And you're looking pretty adorable. 19:33 Oh, well, thank you. 19:35 You're welcome. Thank you. 19:36 What's really fun I think about all that is 19:38 that the exercise really changes everything 19:41 not so much just even the weight 19:43 but how hard you laugh 19:45 and the things that you want to do 19:48 and the energy that you have to do those things. 19:50 So there's so many changes 19:51 that happen that are beneficial. 19:53 On the things that I don't want to add to that too, 19:55 is generally speaking you're doing it with some other people 20:00 and they're laughing with you, 20:01 I mean that kind of stuff they're really, 20:03 it's hard to find people 20:05 who are trying to get healthy that generally are grumpy. 20:08 Yeah, there's a cool factor when you have 20:10 spend extra time on a bike though 20:12 you look really cool when the bike is right next to you 20:14 for every foot away from the bike you get 20:16 the less call you get, so you do have to watch that. 20:20 You got to watch it with this one. 20:21 Okay, any other questions? Yes, go ahead. 20:23 Hi, my name is Shedria and I had a bit of a health scare 20:27 when I was expecting my second child 20:30 with this blazer on my cervix and I was trying to figure out 20:36 you know, with husband having a health message, 20:40 you have the extreme over here and extreme over here 20:43 and this is kind of difficult to find the mystery 20:46 and one person is telling you, well, don't go to the doctors 20:50 just pray, just pray and God will deliver you. 20:52 And other people are telling you, well, you need to go 20:55 to the doctor you need to get all things prescribed 20:58 for whatever they're giving you 21:00 and I want to find a healthy medial in the mid. 21:02 I want to know how to have this fear to ask for 21:06 and still trust my doctor. 21:08 Absolutely. 21:09 So what would you suggest for me? 21:11 You know, I think that's a really excellent question 21:14 and I believe many of the modern medicines 21:19 and the skills that have been given to our surgeons 21:22 and our doctors are nothing less than a gift from God 21:25 because there's been very, very clearly documented cases 21:29 that without this particular treatment, 21:31 this person would not have survived. 21:32 For example the bike rides at the Leukemia Society, 21:36 okay, that research has funded medicines one 21:39 that get's called Tromoxasiler something like that, 21:42 that literally five years ago didn't exist 21:46 but this money that's been raised 21:48 and they raised over a billion dollars 21:50 but this money is raised as funded researchers 21:52 developed this particular drug for this kind of Leukemia 21:56 that people are alive, I've suddenly had people 21:58 stand in front of me say were not for the efforts 22:00 that these people made I would be dead. 22:02 However, now saying that is I would like to jump in 22:06 and say for a lot of us with our lifestyle diseases 22:10 that if we would have done the right thing over the years, 22:14 not in your case 'cause your case 22:15 you get here during the pregnancy and to me man, 22:18 I just want to say and I will probably 22:21 get calls is check with your doctor. 22:23 Make sure you know that you're okay. 22:25 There's a friend of mine who's an evangelistic 22:27 got Thyroid cancer 22:29 and they went in and did a innervation 22:31 and he's alive today because of that. 22:33 So I think that there's sometimes you just got to check 22:35 and sometimes you've got to say to yourself right now, 22:38 am I doing the things that I need to do 22:41 in order to avoid those lifestyle diseases. 22:44 And some of them are cancers, heart disease, diabetes 22:47 all that kind of stuff and like I found out 22:49 with the Celiacs disease if I would have been 22:52 eating properly I wouldn't have had the surgery 22:55 and they wouldn't have-- some gay wouldn't have been 22:56 holding my intestines in his hand. 22:58 You know what I mean? 22:59 Luckily when he went in there, there was nothing wrong 23:02 and they didn't have to remove anything 23:03 but its just like I, God had told me over the years, 23:07 Cheri, please take care of yourself 23:09 and I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I will. 23:12 And never did and that He said it gently again, get on a bike, 23:17 do some exercise, get outside, drink some water, 23:20 eat healthier all that kind of stuff 23:22 and I think that I would've avoided 23:24 some things down the pike. 23:27 But there are times that doctors, 23:29 medicine paying attention we have some of the most 23:32 incredible medical facilities on the planet. 23:36 Loma Linda University and Bangkok hospital 23:39 and Sydney Adventist hospital 23:41 we have some incredible facilities 23:43 and there are cancer units 23:45 at those facilities that are to die for. 23:49 Yeah, to take you right to heaven. 23:51 All right, Brad, we've just feeling I will say 23:53 there's two things and though you agree, Brad, 23:55 paying attention to what you're doing now-- 23:57 Absolutely, absolutely 23:58 and I love the term of the lifestyle diseases 24:01 because we have some people that we care about very dearly 24:03 and we look at them 24:05 and its like you're eating yourself to death. 24:06 And why won't my body heal, why won't this infection go away? 24:10 Well, potato chips and diet soda, I mean, 24:12 technically that's vegetarian but you know, 24:14 that is not gonna help your body recover from many thing. 24:17 So there's a part to that I don't know if it's okay 24:19 to say the word common sense you know, 24:22 if you had a broken leg you would go to some one 24:24 and have them set it and so there's some things 24:27 and I really believe and now there's a fine line absolutely, 24:29 you don't want to take every last possible pill 24:32 or what can I take and you take all that's just silly. 24:34 But if it's really clear this is something 24:37 that makes a lot of sense. 24:38 Even there are people that we love 24:40 and then I have people from all different religions 24:44 and no religions or whatever they go to the doctor 24:46 and the doctor give them four more pills 24:48 to do the side effects from the two they've already taken 24:51 and so there are people that we love that you know, 24:53 and we've called them up and saying, 24:55 please don't take something else another thing 24:59 and yet but my doctor said. 25:01 So there's sometimes you got to be really careful with that 25:03 and for you know, I belong to a church 25:08 and we're health nuts I mean, we are health nuts 25:10 and I use to hate that but now I just absolutely love that 25:14 'cause I feel like my life is richer 25:18 because I take care of it 25:19 and its so it's like a matter of adding that exercise, 25:22 adding the proper foods, making sure that 25:25 you don't disregard the medical field 25:27 when you need it but man, pay attention 25:31 'cause there's some things that you can do 25:32 just by grabbing an apple. 25:34 Even within the bike riding the, I mean, these long rides 25:38 and during this there's gels and goose and supplements 25:40 and this and that and so there's a competitive cyclist 25:44 to use the contemporary of Lance Armstrong's 25:46 and so he's at that level of riding 25:48 that's decided can't we just eat food? 25:51 You know there's have to be this conclusion 25:52 or something somebody have made a goo or gel 25:54 or this or powder or you mix it with that. 25:56 And so he hired two chefs and these guys want 26:00 to developing a whole food program, 26:03 it's not Adventist I'm gonna say that 26:04 but it's just eating poor foods. 26:06 So I was able to take that and adopted to our choices 26:09 for eating on this 200 mile ride that I did 26:13 I was the second guy to cross the line 26:15 'cause I had food that fueled me. 26:16 Well, I didn't have to stop I had good energy, 26:19 I was the slowest guy in the team 26:20 and I was the second one to finish to the ride. 26:22 And you know-- He called me right away. 26:25 Yeah, guess what? Guess what? So exciting. 26:29 You know, Brad, you're talking about the different things 26:32 that you've been through lately, 26:35 I would like to come back, have you come back on the close 26:38 share with us not only how you got through there 26:43 but how you deal with the fact that you still probably 26:45 are gonna look at Parkinson's and different things? 26:47 How did you find your identity and can you pray with those 26:51 that are struggling with some really serious physical things 26:54 that may be lost right now. 26:55 Absolutely, I'd be honored to do so. 26:56 So you know what I'd like to just say stay tuned. 26:59 This part of it is really a cool thing 27:01 because sometimes the diseases are gonna be left 27:03 and we're still gonna look at that kind of stuff 27:05 that how do we do it with joy, 27:06 how do we do it and know that I'm okay. 27:10 My identity is in Christ and He is crazy about me. 27:14 We'll be right back. |
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