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00:00:00.000 i don't even know what to say today other than merry christmas uh i just got some some news that

00:00:11.440 i'll share a little bit later uh but i gotta tell you i am absolutely uh floored at this

00:00:19.140 opportunity to talk to you today on a day that's very important on a day that we get a chance to

00:00:26.680 do something different and for all the right reasons we get a day to focus on i think

00:00:33.020 because of the quiet because of the peace and because of the calm on this silent night

00:00:40.980 we get a chance to unplug from the noise and to focus on what matters most

00:00:48.980 i'm excited to do that with you today i'm justin barkley in for glenn beck today on the

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00:02:01.480 all right back in it is justin barclay filling in for glenn beck today on the glenn beck program

00:02:15.420 to merry christmas uh merry christmas eve again we got a chance to do something different today

00:02:21.340 when i first got the call about this show and and what we might do today and the fact that it would

00:02:27.480 be today i mean there are all kinds of things that went through my mind but the most the one that stood

00:02:32.800 out i think the most was the fact that we get a chance to get together and we get to connect and we

00:02:40.600 get to talk about things that matter most look there's a lot happening in the news in the past

00:02:47.720 several years now it's been a constant feed

00:02:52.600 and a lot of it really noise i always say like it's really like drinking from a fire hose

00:03:02.360 it's constantly coming at you and how do you make sense of what matters and

00:03:08.440 what really is garbage what the junk is

00:03:13.720 i think we're getting better and better at that but i also think that the better we get

00:03:22.440 the more of it is coming at us and literally non-stop

00:03:27.240 i i think some of this started in the beginning with the advent of the 24-hour news network i mean

00:03:36.760 we could follow it all the way back to see some of the roots

00:03:40.920 it used to be that we got our news in a different way

00:03:45.800 it used to be that we had conversations with each other in a more personal way and we had a lot more

00:03:55.100 time to really sit and digest what was going on in the world and maybe the issues of the day right

00:04:02.460 we had time to really kind of

00:04:04.380 think through it all make sense of it all

00:04:10.300 nowadays

00:04:13.420 there's no time to think there's no time to really process it's just

00:04:19.180 simply reaction

00:04:24.700 and this causes all kinds of things and we react we

00:04:28.780 everything's outrageous

00:04:31.500 and i'm here to tell you that the sky is not

00:04:35.180 really falling although boy it feels like it

00:04:42.380 at times because we're being told

00:04:45.020 that the sky is constantly falling there's reasons for that

00:04:51.180 there's a reason why we want to be plugged in and we want to stay informed

00:04:55.660 the simple human reason that we want to know

00:04:58.380 where the threats are coming from we wake up every day because we

00:05:02.140 want to check the news and find out okay what do i need to protect my family from today it's very

00:05:07.020 simple we're hardwired that way

00:05:14.060 not much has changed really from the the days of

00:05:19.740 oh i i don't know cavemen waking up

00:05:22.700 tracking their uh their club around and

00:05:26.380 and just taking a peek out the cave you know i'm being funny here but

00:05:30.460 we still that do that today now we we wake up and we grab the phone and then we

00:05:36.540 scroll through our notifications to see what what happened while i was sleeping what

00:05:41.260 what do i need to know about what do i need to to be on alert for right now

00:05:45.500 and they know that i say they i'm talking about the folks who are

00:05:50.220 constantly feeding us this noise oh and and the folks who

00:05:53.420 you know profit from us being in that constant state of alertness

00:06:04.940 what does that do to us what does that do to our families

00:06:11.740 there are chemical reactions that constantly happen by the way um when you're at that constant state

00:06:17.420 of awareness the adrenaline the overload that all those things can happen

00:06:27.500 you're constantly in fight or flight mode and so we're not making maybe the best decisions

00:06:36.380 so that's why i think today is an opportunity and really a gift because we get a chance to slow down

00:06:43.180 we're going to come together during a holiday

00:06:45.260 with family with family with friends with loved ones to just really take a step back

00:06:54.780 and a pause and i think these pauses have gotten fewer and further between and also

00:07:03.020 a lot shorter because people used to take you know weeks off during the holiday at one point

00:07:12.060 just kind of turn everything off the news cycle the folks would leave washington the news cycle would

00:07:17.900 slow down but i guarantee everything picks back up tomorrow or thursday

00:07:27.340 we're starting the slow down process now and so why i think today is an opportunity for us to have

00:07:33.180 this conversation to talk about what really matters most but not just what really matters most why

00:07:40.060 a chance for us to have the conversation so that we can be intentional

00:07:49.820 throughout this time

00:07:52.940 we can take that pause

00:07:55.660 we had a great conversation with a man who i respect

00:07:58.780 his family uh is is one of the leading families where i am my hometown in west michigan where i live

00:08:10.700 right now in grand rapids and these folks are they are philanthropic they are very generous they are

00:08:19.180 very giving and they had a great upbringing and there's a there's a great atmosphere and a great

00:08:24.860 culture of that here a foundation that was laid many years ago many years ago before even the folks

00:08:32.060 that live here came to this country and i think rooted in that

00:08:39.740 was faith and as we talked about faith and we had a conversation about their holiday gathering around

00:08:47.740 thanksgiving and the dinner table he told a story about how one of his brothers as they all got together as a

00:08:52.460 family took a pause

00:08:58.300 a pause before they prayed on thanksgiving everyone gathered around the table the turkey the mashed potatoes

00:09:07.180 the stuffing or dressing no matter what you call it because if you're southern i think it's dressing

00:09:12.700 or whether the cranberries are there or not it does not matter but they paused

00:09:21.580 before they prayed and his brother made the point that we want to pause before we pray

00:09:30.300 so that we don't just rush through it

00:09:31.820 because in the world that we live in today we're constantly feeding us

00:09:38.540 all of the information all of the news most of it noise

00:09:44.860 and every single alert popping up on our phone there's a tendency that we just want to run through

00:09:50.460 or rush through what it is that we've got to do and we really lose sight of the magic

00:09:55.180 that happens in those moments

00:10:00.460 oh there are monumental things that happen in

00:10:07.580 the many

00:10:09.740 many

00:10:11.660 moments

00:10:14.140 it doesn't take much

00:10:17.500 but just our focus maybe redirecting it

00:10:19.900 and that's what i'm excited about today to stop

00:10:24.300 and take a look at that because when this man said that his brother stopped and said we're going

00:10:28.780 to focus just on taking a breath before we pray we're not going to rush through it

00:10:33.580 before we say grace before we give thanks for the food that's on our table

00:10:38.700 let's just take a pause and

00:10:42.140 focus in why we're here why we're doing this

00:10:46.300 and

00:10:49.900 why it matters

00:10:53.260 so this christmas

00:10:57.020 on this very day

00:11:00.380 i'm so excited to be here with you

00:11:03.020 because i think we have an opportunity

00:11:07.260 we have an opportunity to come together

00:11:10.060 together

00:11:11.260 in so many ways

00:11:12.940 with friends

00:11:14.380 with family

00:11:17.820 with folks all across this country not just across the dinner table

00:11:23.740 and remember

00:11:25.660 the real reason

00:11:27.180 why we're all here

00:11:30.140 and why

00:11:31.580 it matters

00:11:33.260 talk more about that here in just a second

00:11:35.340 a quick pause

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00:12:45.020 merry christmas it is justin barkley i'm live from wood radio in grand rapids michigan an

00:13:05.420 opportunity to to talk with you today in for glenn back on the glenn back program and glenn's

00:13:10.540 taking some time off smart guy little time to and and and by the way well deserved

00:13:17.900 no matter what patents do say uh he works hard

00:13:23.260 and a chance to really just uh take a pause and and remember what matters most whether that's with

00:13:29.020 your family spending some time thinking about your faith on a day like today i think most of us

00:13:38.140 us we'll take a little time to to do something maybe things a little bit differently no matter

00:13:43.900 whether you're working today or not if you're working or you're going over the woods and over

00:13:49.180 the river and through the woods to grandma's house or maybe you're preparing a food where you are right

00:13:52.780 now and i'm just grateful that we get a chance to talk to each other it's not lost on me all of the

00:13:59.020 things that i said earlier and i i mean that we do have an opportunity today in such a world where

00:14:03.820 we're filled with chaos and noise and everyone yelling fighting and screaming at each other

00:14:07.740 we're constantly outraged about everything because they told us that we have to be

00:14:15.900 in the world that we live in today it's great that we have a chance no matter if it's just a moment

00:14:20.060 here or there to really re-center and refocus and think about what matters most it may be different

00:14:27.340 things to you and it may be something completely and totally different to me

00:14:34.460 some of the biggest things in my life faith and family and the friends and of course i just got some news

00:14:42.540 about someone who i consider family very close to me in the hospital right now

00:14:52.860 who could use some prayers so i'm going to selfishly ask for that

00:14:57.340 not necessarily what i had planned to talk to you about right now but i'm going to selfishly

00:15:02.940 ask for some prayers for that person without saying who it is or

00:15:08.940 telling what they need if you're the praying kind she could definitely use them

00:15:17.100 but this is a moment that we can come together and again whether it's around the dinner table or

00:15:21.340 whether it's around the radio no matter where you are you're listening on your phone

00:15:26.780 it's a chance for us to really refocus on what matters most and think about those things

00:15:32.060 in a world where everything is moving a million miles a minute it feels like we are out of control

00:15:41.660 and maybe that's because we are

00:15:42.940 but maybe somebody else is in control

00:15:52.220 when we think about that today

00:15:55.500 and we'll have a moment to really maybe share

00:16:01.820 some of

00:16:03.660 the things that are happening because as wild as it seems

00:16:08.140 and boy it sure does there's a saying in the news business

00:16:18.060 that i find often rings true

00:16:25.420 if it bleeds it leads

00:16:29.980 and if it bleeds it leads means if it's a if it's a story that is negative it's a story that

00:16:34.460 it scares people if it's a story that is about tragedy well that that's the greatest

00:16:42.300 gift you can get in the news business because this is a story

00:16:49.820 that will draw people in that will attract people and that will keep people listening

00:16:54.540 i don't know if you've noticed in the past

00:16:55.980 a few years decade two maybe the constant drone

00:17:03.980 about weather

00:17:07.020 yeah some of this is is talk about climate change and

00:17:11.580 some of this is talk about uh just regular everyday weather events

00:17:18.380 but i've had conversations with meteorologists

00:17:21.020 a really good one here locally

00:17:22.540 who have a really common sense approach

00:17:28.060 a really sensible way of talking about things and dealing with things and putting

00:17:31.260 things into perspective historically when it comes to weather

00:17:37.500 we tend to get these weather reports

00:17:40.380 like the sky is falling and i guess in some cases when it is the weather the sky is literally

00:17:45.580 falling but we tend to get these weather reports delivered to us in such a way

00:17:49.660 they hype it up i don't know if you've noticed this but they hype it up in such a way that

00:17:59.820 has to keep you listening you've got to keep you on the hook they have to constantly reel you in

00:18:09.260 because you got to stay tuned to the tv you can't turn away because it makes you feel that like

00:18:16.540 if you do the same way with that news

00:18:20.780 that your very survival depends on it

00:18:26.460 well

00:18:26.700 i'm not telling you to put your head in the sand

00:18:32.460 but i'm just asking you to think about it intentionally

00:18:36.620 and maybe differently

00:18:39.020 and one of the ways i'll do that today is we'll show you some of the things that are happening

00:18:42.700 because these are some stories that you're not hearing let me just read you some headlines

00:18:48.620 literally off of drudge right now

00:18:53.020 stocks on a high more records smashed

00:18:58.780 feds quietly making efforts to calm market because the market is is is on fire

00:19:03.660 i read a headline the other day that said that we've had the greatest decade in the history of

00:19:11.500 whatever

00:19:15.020 so there are stories that make you squirm

00:19:24.380 there are stories that certainly scare you and the way they're delivered can too

00:19:29.420 but our economy is on fire and i think there are more good things happening in the world today

00:19:37.340 than there are bad there's certainly no shortage of bad things don't get me wrong

00:19:43.580 i'm not pollyanna right i'm not uh overly optimistic i'm just telling you the reality is

00:19:50.940 there's plenty of good we don't hear about the good

00:19:54.620 because we're too busy focusing on the bad and they're too busy focusing on the bad

00:20:05.660 how about this 34.4 billion dollars the biggest shopping day in history just headlines i'm just

00:20:14.060 reading you some of the headlines here i don't even have to go into great detail and honestly yes there

00:20:19.900 are major things happening on a large scale

00:20:24.940 but i think

00:20:27.340 even

00:20:29.020 great things are happening

00:20:33.500 all over the world

00:20:35.100 and certainly

00:20:37.020 closer to home

00:20:39.020 than you would even imagine

00:20:40.700 they would lead you to believe

00:20:42.540 in fact one of the things that i like to say and i talk about on a daily basis

00:20:46.060 because i do a local show where i'm at and we talk really about the local things that are happening

00:20:51.260 the things that are happening right here in our community and for you

00:20:57.580 and me

00:20:59.500 i think what's happening here in your own backyard wherever you may be far more important what's

00:21:05.020 happening to see and we'll talk about that and how to come together with each other coming up next

00:21:10.300 a unique situation two twin sisters completely opposed politically but how do they get along if

00:21:17.100 they can do it we'll tell you how you can too coming up next on the glenbeck program it's justin

00:21:21.980 barkley in for glen today

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00:22:28.220 and merry christmas it is uh christmas eve day justin barclay uh you can get to me by the way

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00:23:01.340 time that's what this is all about today and merry christmas uh christmas eve a very special

00:23:05.820 christmas eve filling in for glen back today on the glen back program and it's it's my pleasure

00:23:10.940 as we get to kind of focus on the things that really matter most and the things that we get to

00:23:14.380 share with each other i think an opportunity to take a break and a pause from all the noise and

00:23:18.940 the chaos that's normally coming through the speaker on tv and and of course through the

00:23:24.460 screens on the internet scrolling facebook you know it's funny because they they say you know

00:23:31.500 most of folks have gone home from washington and the cameras are gone and things are taking a break

00:23:37.020 but twitter is still open 24 7 uh so we'll take a pause from that too at times and maybe focus on

00:23:45.100 what matters most and here to help us kind of do that today i got a couple of folks these two ladies

00:23:49.500 you may have actually seen on shows like fox and friends and they've been highlighted in a couple

00:23:54.380 of different places they're sisters they're twins but they as much as they have in common

00:24:03.340 couldn't disagree more when it comes to the issues politically they're completely opposite on the

00:24:10.620 ends of the spectrum and here to talk a little bit about how that works for them and of course

00:24:16.460 how you can come together during the holidays no matter your political affiliations or your

00:24:22.140 ideologies uh two twins monica sparks and jessica and tyson and both politicians as well welcome in

00:24:28.380 and merry christmas ladies absolutely a merry christmas merry christmas uh monica and jessica are

00:24:35.820 here monica sparks and jessica and tyson and these two are twins they're identical twins now you could

00:24:41.340 tell them apart because their outfits are different but they both have on christmas themed outfits so

00:24:46.460 you guys have a lot in common with each other we do that too but you know everyone asks how do you

00:24:51.340 tell like the older we get i think we look a little more different but um how can you tell mole

00:24:56.780 monica i have a mole on my face but i'm not a mole oh i just i have a mole on my face i eat beauty mart

00:25:02.140 i love it so and everybody has my wife is a twin too so not awesome not identical but uh there's a

00:25:10.300 very close bond with twins is what i've what i've come to realize and yeah i mean you've always been

00:25:16.700 with each other you've never known a day that you didn't you weren't you know roommates yeah that's

00:25:21.980 what she called too yeah so it's really fascinating but what what what makes me think about this is that

00:25:28.860 these two are not just twins but they also have similar interests in similar fields but

00:25:39.340 disagree in in some ways and one of that might be politics and in policy and issues and certain

00:25:45.740 things yeah just a slight difference and right here monica you heard is is the democrat and then

00:25:52.620 jessica proud republican which is interesting to me how does this happen you know you you you both

00:25:58.540 had many of the same experiences growing up you're you know a lot of ways almost practically the same

00:26:05.260 person right genetically and things like that right as science that way many days yeah it's it's wild

00:26:11.340 but somehow in some way uh you split in in these ways and i want to talk about this because i think

00:26:18.060 it's fascinating uh and i think a lot of people do matter of fact you've been featured all over

00:26:22.860 news uh nationally all over the place internationally people there's just as fascinating as i am this

00:26:30.540 what is going on here but and you've run for office and currently are uh county commissioner in

00:26:36.940 kent county and in the state of michigan and serving now and uh this is you i'm sure you have people

00:26:43.580 walk up to you on the street say monica what is your sister up to what's going on that too

00:26:47.980 or they think i'm her yeah they do you ever get an earful from some people oh man do i ever do i

00:26:56.060 ever sometimes i have to say just stop listen listen i listen a little bit but i'm like okay well how

00:27:01.500 can we turn your sister because if we could just turn your sister back to the right way and i'm like

00:27:06.540 i don't think that's gonna happen but if you've got a better plan let me know do you guys know where

00:27:11.900 you where the paths split like what it was it was there a certain time or something that happened

00:27:17.180 uh through the years i don't know i think that our parents um may have sent mixed messages because

00:27:25.020 she could have sworn that our dad thought um that he was republican based on some of the ideology

00:27:32.140 that our parents have i mean i'm a teenager and our father shot taught us how to you know rifles

00:27:39.660 guns you know our parents taught us how to how to uh make sure that we were self-sufficient took us to

00:27:44.540 the farmer's market so we could you know make sure that we uh learn business structure and oh yeah so

00:27:50.060 many different things and not that democrats can't uh do those things but they're very very ideology

00:27:56.860 of a republican and uh that's that's how i grew up and i swore my parents were republican they were

00:28:02.620 very active politically but as a kid um if you remember back in those days it's been a little while

00:28:09.100 you never you never talked about whether you were republican or democrat you never talked about

00:28:14.540 that you never talked about whether you're protestant or christian you never talked about

00:28:17.660 religion yeah you never talked about those things but we would see them they would take us to the voting

00:28:22.380 pools polls and uh it was just very interesting and they would entertain everyone that came to the

00:28:28.700 door anything about an election up everybody gather around everybody come and sit and we're going to

00:28:34.620 talk to this individual because we need to know what they stand for and our parents were always about

00:28:40.540 that so they taught us our rights and responsibilities you know being african americans uh for voting

00:28:47.740 wow and that's a powerful thing very powerful probably probably a big reason behind that too is that this

00:28:53.660 is something that historically uh they probably talked about the significance of this too and our parents

00:28:59.580 are seniors you know they're in their 80s going to 90s so yeah they're they've seen a lot of things

00:29:05.580 you know they they've seen the opportunities where they didn't have uh the opportunity to vote and then

00:29:10.540 they've seen the opportunities come their way that they had the the voice yeah so they've been through

00:29:16.060 a lot and you can imagine what that absolutely what that lives fans like purple heart korean war veteran

00:29:21.180 wow mom was a school teacher for 37 years 37 years taught in an international classroom for all of

00:29:27.580 those years uh students that were coming from different countries couldn't speak english so

00:29:33.500 we've seen a lot in our life so we have yeah so what makes me think about this is that even though

00:29:38.540 you have differences in in opinions on things i always feel and see when i have interactions with people that

00:29:45.980 i believe we have a lot more in common with each other than what's talked about on the nightly news

00:29:51.900 let's be honest agreed agreed and you come together and you you two certainly have a lot

00:29:57.340 more in common with each other uh but but there's so much to learn too because as your parents were

00:30:03.580 teaching you about uh voting and maybe issues and allowing people to come and talk and and you were

00:30:08.380 seeing this as you learned a lot probably too by watching them and their interactions they may have

00:30:13.180 disagreed politically but you just didn't know because they were so agreeable with each other and

00:30:18.860 you're right about that because just the other day we were at the house and mom says just your

00:30:25.420 president she refuses she says he is not my president and she refuses i remind her she lives in america

00:30:33.820 yeah she reminds her that but um we just as the butt of a lot of our jokes our family jokes um sorry

00:30:40.620 about that but hate it for you real talk so she's the butt of a lot of our jokes but she only became the

00:30:46.460 butt of our jokes during this administration because before we just kind of thought okay

00:30:53.020 that's her choice that's her decision we didn't think much about it but now everybody everyone's

00:30:58.620 so polarized and everyone is just so opinionated that it's hard to remember that we are in a democracy

00:31:07.900 and you have the right here in america to live your choice and to have your choice as to who you want

00:31:14.140 to represent you as the president so i want to give folks maybe some tips because i know you two

00:31:19.820 are very yeah you're you're very um into this but not only that but you're you're into helping other

00:31:26.060 people as well so absolutely what what can we do especially around the holidays christmas eve now

00:31:31.980 break out the list girlfriend yeah people are going to go and be with family and that's tough

00:31:36.860 any time of year for some folks yeah but especially when you're when we have these heated political

00:31:41.340 discussions oh yes well i think it starts with the hostess or host let's get some of those tips

00:31:47.660 hang on for a second we'll take a quick pause and be back right after this i'm justin barkley in for

00:31:52.620 glenn this is the glenn beck program merry christmas you're listening to glenn beck

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00:33:16.380 it's justin barkley in for glenn beck today on the glenn beck program we're just talking with

00:33:19.820 monica sparks and her twin sister jessica ann tyson they're twins identical but they're on opposite ends

00:33:25.340 of the spectrum politically and talking about how you can get together and get along for the holidays

00:33:29.500 with family and you said it starts with the host you have to know the players of the game the people

00:33:36.300 that you are actually inviting and you have to make allowances within the event and jessica is

00:33:44.620 excellent at planning events so she could probably speak to that a little better um i'm excellent too

00:33:50.940 but uh just a little competitive but uh she could probably speak to that as far as uh i think we

00:33:59.420 put together a post and we were talking about that before well you know if you are the host or hostess

00:34:04.700 of the event one thing that you should do is like monica said who are the players is it uncle bob and

00:34:10.380 he's coming and he's just got the biggest boisterous loudest voice then we need to kind of talk to

00:34:15.100 uncle bob before he gets there and let uncle bob know that listen you know we're trying to do something

00:34:19.980 different we're trying to make sure that all opinions are heard or don't even go down that

00:34:24.460 path so uncle bob can you not make mention that xyz whatever wear your nra uh lifetime membership

00:34:31.180 jacket you know that kind of yeah and then put and then put pictures up let everyone know when they

00:34:35.980 when they come in the the tone of the house or the room put pictures up things that remind them of home

00:34:43.180 things that remind them of back in the day yeah where things were were gravy if you will yeah remind

00:34:49.260 people of that remind people of um uh stories you know if you're into scripture bible stories things

00:34:56.540 of that nature so that you can direct conversations and you can make it really fun too you know by handing

00:35:02.220 handing everyone some information when they first come in let's talk about family uh the rule and the

00:35:07.660 ground rule is set the guideline only family we only talk about family um and things that matter

00:35:13.740 to us turn off the television turn off the radio but not the glenbeck show not not that keep us on we

00:35:20.140 want to keep that on always but make sure that you you don't put things out there that can start those

00:35:27.260 immediate conversations or spark those feelings uh the individuals have so they won't be guided to those

00:35:35.500 conversations mm-hmm but there's there are some times though that families do want to get into

00:35:41.020 political conversation uh when we're thanksgiving uh again like monica said i was the butt of all the

00:35:47.340 jokes uh there came a point that uh because i'm a little bit stronger of an individual i was like okay

00:35:53.180 we're good we're good and my mother uh said i said i wasn't gonna say anything but i have one question

00:35:59.260 why did president trump la la la la la and that was an opportunity for me to actually enlighten

00:36:04.700 everyone in my family because i'm a little bit more informed but it was the way that i did it in

00:36:09.660 a very respectful way because i knew that everyone else in the house was against me besides my husband

00:36:14.540 and my daughter but there is a way they are but there's a way to there's a way to do it right you

00:36:21.660 know there's a way to uh not not put it in their face i think one thing we have to remember is are we

00:36:28.060 adults like at the end of the day are we adults and children are looking that's right and we are

00:36:34.940 creating a culture and many of us just want to throw our words around without that we want the

00:36:40.220 right to throw our words around but not the responsibility that comes after we've said and

00:36:44.700 what happens after we've said these damaging things have consequences and so do our words yeah

00:36:49.340 that's a great point and uh i'm just reminded thinking about this too that there are going to be

00:36:53.100 other families that are more aggressive with each other and that traditionally they're fine with

00:36:57.740 having the back and forth so you know your family get into that exactly yeah i mean you know your

00:37:02.540 family there's some families like they thrive on it like there are some days that i'm with some of my

00:37:07.260 friends and what feels good to just let it out and let it rip and tell them all that i know and then

00:37:11.900 they tell me what they don't know uh but you know but at the end you know like if we all agreed with

00:37:17.340 her we'd all be wrong okay she's crazy but let me tell you this so you know if you if you if you have

00:37:23.100 your family and they are about that kind of um you know um camaraderie that's fine but then don't

00:37:29.500 serve impeachment pie you know what i'm saying like think about what you're actually doing don't spark a

00:37:35.580 flame to to make it grow but just spark the flame so that they feel comfortable enough to be able to

00:37:41.340 be themselves and to say what they what is on their mind but like monica said and that's so good sissy

00:37:47.100 responsibility you have to be responsible with your with your words are you agreeing with me

00:37:51.340 the democrat are you is that no i that just happened i am agreeing with that point that you

00:37:57.020 said because it's true she's agreeing with her sister and think about that as we look at what's

00:38:02.380 happening in your family and in each of our families what if we do our best to make sure that

00:38:07.740 little pieces of that are planted throughout our country and as a nation we can come together

00:38:12.220 because we're all americans and at the end of the day we all are we all want a successful america we

00:38:21.180 all want a successful place where our citizens can thrive where people who live here and come here

00:38:27.900 can thrive our new americans where they can thrive um i i heard uh one person mayor kepley last night was

00:38:34.940 talking about the refrigerator policy have you ever heard of that before what's the refrigerator

00:38:39.820 policy is when you go to my house maybe the first second third time i get what you ask if you ask

00:38:47.580 for a glass of water you're not going to just go into my refrigerator i'm going to get it for you

00:38:51.980 but after a while that maybe that third fourth fifth time hey you go get it yourself and that's where

00:38:59.020 the sense of belonging happens and you get it yourself and you're able to take care of yourself and

00:39:04.940 you're able to uh understand republican to me absolutely not so you're able to take care of

00:39:12.780 yourself and and help out and add and contribute as we know many immigrants and refugees add much

00:39:19.900 much to our economy you know it's interesting because we hear this story and i hear you talking

00:39:24.620 when you say this and i appreciate the lessons we're learning here we gotta unfortunately we're out of

00:39:28.940 time so we have to wrap up jessica ann tyson and monica sparks we focus on what matters most when we

00:39:35.260 focus on our connections and those bonds last because they're bigger you're listening to glenn beck

00:39:46.220 the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment this is the glenn beck program coming up you're gonna hear

00:40:04.540 from a man who's not supposed to be here not because of his political views or maybe who he is by

00:40:16.060 because of what happened about 30 years ago he had a horrible accident on the road

00:40:25.980 and was pronounced dead

00:40:30.300 and yet he'll be on the program coming up what happened this miraculous moment we lived

00:40:42.060 and the story that changed his life after he came back it's what he saw when he was gone but more

00:40:52.220 importantly what he experienced when he came back that i'm certain you're gonna want to hear next

00:41:00.540 it's justin barclay filling in for glenn today on the glenn beck program back right after this

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00:42:17.180 welcome back it's justin barclay today and a special opportunity as i mentioned at the beginning of

00:42:22.620 the show here we are merry christmas christmas eve and a special opportunity as the hustle

00:42:32.380 takes a break i know folks are out maybe finishing some shopping and maybe you're finishing touches

00:42:37.660 on the family get together or the gatherings that you'll be having tonight maybe going to church or

00:42:42.300 maybe getting together tomorrow morning throughout the day but it's a special opportunity for us

00:42:48.540 to come together as a people take a pause and really focus on what matters most

00:42:59.900 not the news or in most cases noise not what's happening in washington dc but maybe what's happening

00:43:10.540 in your own backyard and even more importantly at your own dinner table and

00:43:19.100 most importantly maybe in your own heart

00:43:22.620 our next guest is don piper he's got an incredible story i'll let him tell it but he's the author of 90

00:43:31.820 minutes in heaven he died and yet he's on the phone with us today don welcome in and merry christmas how

00:43:40.780 are you well merry christmas to you yes i am alive um i wasn't but now i am and um you know uh the death

00:43:50.780 rate here is 100 that's kind of a difficult thing to talk about on uh on christmas eve but

00:43:57.500 it means that we need to be ready all the time for what happens next so i am excited to be here

00:44:03.500 another christmas this will be 69 christmases for me and uh i'm still here and so are you

00:44:12.540 and why don't we make the most of it while we are because uh indeed you've got an incredible story

00:44:18.940 don i'm going to let you talk about some of this but there's a chance for us as we celebrate the birth

00:44:23.580 in bethlehem over 2 000 years ago a chance for maybe yeah we'll talk about death but maybe a

00:44:30.060 chance to talk about a rebirth that can happen new life uh i have been to that uh that church there

00:44:38.380 church of the nativity in bethlehem on a number of occasions it is a very special place it's a very

00:44:44.220 humble place uh a very unlikely place for the son of god uh to be born um but when you're there

00:44:53.020 obviously there's a presence and a knowledge of the fact that uh nearly two thousand years ago

00:44:58.380 um the son of god came to dwell among us i was a pastor in 1989 still am and uh i was on my way to

00:45:08.780 church uh to uh leader wednesday night service and uh i didn't make it uh i was in the uh east texas

00:45:17.660 a very rural area because i had been at a conference at a retreat center and about 10 minutes out of the

00:45:23.660 front gate in january of 1989 an 18-wheeler tractor trailer truck crossed center stripe of a narrow

00:45:32.300 bridge uh and hit me head-on i never saw it coming um it was a rainy cold day and it was just a horrific

00:45:42.060 collision because he hit two other cars after he struck me amazingly miraculously really none of

00:45:50.700 those people were injured the truck driver or the other two drivers of the car they were treated

00:45:56.220 and released uh in this area rural area whenever when finally uh first responders got there because

00:46:02.140 it was uh really remote and uh they discovered uh the four paramedics who were now working on me since

00:46:10.300 there was no one else to work on uh that i had been killed instantly they did try everything they

00:46:17.020 could uh to try to revive me resuscitate me they were unsuccessful so i was the body which was hideous

00:46:26.780 was covered up with a tarp and they were waiting for a medical examiner to come and do the appropriate

00:46:32.620 paperwork to take me away and um so i just lay there for quite a while and behind me were lots of other

00:46:40.220 ministers one of them came up on the bridge felt god say uh to him to pray for me even though i had

00:46:47.580 been declared dead by several professionals and uh they discouraged him not from praying but from

00:46:54.460 getting even near me because of all the wreckage and the danger uh he finally prevailed uh got in the

00:47:00.460 wreckage of the car uh put his hand on my right shoulder under the tarp um i uh obviously didn't have

00:47:08.780 any knowledge of this i was absent from that body and present with the lord at the time in fact the

00:47:13.580 moment the car the truck struck me but he was praying because he was being obedient and uh that

00:47:19.660 went on for an hour and a half uh from 11 45 when he arrived on the scene until 1 15 in the afternoon

00:47:27.180 still waiting for the medical examiner he began to sing hymns over the body in the car and he was

00:47:34.460 singing a great old hymn uh of the faith called what a friend we have in jesus and suddenly under

00:47:40.380 the tarp uh as he sang that song i began to sing the song with him and he got out of the car very

00:47:47.820 quickly ran over to the yeah the emts and said the dead man is singing okay so we've got to pause here

00:47:56.460 don because people are just maybe tuning in and they're hearing that thinking what okay now what

00:48:01.820 happened this guy was dead yeah and you were gone for as the book says 90 minutes in heaven you were

00:48:09.180 gone and yeah and it may be more appropriately titled you know uh book publishers they want to

00:48:15.580 they want to get a hook out there but it was i was really not here for for an hour and a half

00:48:21.580 uh because in heaven there is no time it's a timeless place i could have been there for 90 years

00:48:26.540 or 90 seconds there there's no either it's linear it's propelled forward but there's no elapse of

00:48:31.900 time so i was away from here for that length of time and uh and he and he and a lot of other people

00:48:39.180 now granted um the uh they did they attempted to contact my family that morning when they you know

00:48:45.980 found my identity uh they were unsuccessful because my wife is teaching school and our children were

00:48:51.660 school it it was a wednesday morning um and so they um they called my church they did find my business

00:48:59.980 card in my wallet they call the church told the church that i had been in a terrible accident but

00:49:04.300 not that i was fatality because my next of kin had not been notified yet so the church of course

00:49:09.740 started praying after they heard i was a horrific wreck and they called other churches they called other

00:49:16.220 people actually by the time that i returned thousands and thousands of people were praying

00:49:24.140 because they'd heard i've been in an accident but not that i had been killed because they did not want

00:49:28.300 to tell that on the phone but the man in the car knew it and uh he had some medical background himself

00:49:34.780 so he was praying and uh and he sang the song and suddenly i found myself in the dark because we were

00:49:41.900 covered up with a tarp um singing that song without knowing who he was or or why i was singing or

00:49:49.980 anything having to do with what had happened to me uh in in the wreck it took me hours to be filled

00:49:57.340 in on the the collision of the 18-wheeler and i was transferred eventually to a level one trauma center

00:50:03.260 in houston and uh so consequently it was um it was just a it was just an incredible experience

00:50:11.900 for everybody involved when i got hit by the truck my family got hit by the truck my church got hit by

00:50:17.420 the truck everybody knew me and uh i got asked about it so many times uh because it is such an

00:50:24.060 incredible story uh i decided to write a book and in in the book i one of the first things i say is i

00:50:30.620 wrote this book in self-defense and by that i meant well if i write it all down can can we just move on

00:50:38.540 in my life i you know talking about this wreck and i was hospitalized for 13 months and i had 34 major

00:50:46.700 operations to reattach an arm and a leg and and overcome a lot of other injuries that were just uh

00:50:54.060 life-threatening and so i i just wanted to put this behind me but god put it in front of me and he

00:50:59.900 does that sometimes this time of year is a good reminder because it is about new beginnings so i had a

00:51:05.660 new lease on life at that point 38 year old man married three children a pastor of a church uh

00:51:13.820 things were going well and i felt like i was making a difference and then one day

00:51:18.460 on the way to church i got killed by a truck don piper's on with us right now author of 90 minutes

00:51:25.180 in heaven and what you just heard him describe and in a very condensed way because i'm i'm sure

00:51:31.420 you know don uh talks about this now and usually when he he talks about this and when you read the

00:51:36.940 story and matter of fact they made a they made a movie about this um it it it takes a little more

00:51:43.580 time to develop but boy you know we don't have as much time on the radio so we're going through it

00:51:47.820 but what you just heard was that first miracle and you know they say when you're watching infomercials

00:51:53.980 but wait there's more because there literally is that's the first miracle don is in an accident

00:52:01.100 horrific accident where an 18-wheeler rolls over his tiny car and the the pictures that i've seen in

00:52:09.260 the wreckage is is absolutely unthinkable when you see this it's very gruesome to think about what he

00:52:15.740 went through his body lay lifeless inside of that car and the folks the paramedics the first responders

00:52:23.420 there took him a while to get there but they did respond and found when he was there that

00:52:27.900 he was no longer breathing he didn't have a pulse he was done yet one man walked up upon that scene

00:52:33.980 and said i i want to i i just feel the urge this was another pastor that i feel the urge i want to pray

00:52:39.500 for don and the police said no we don't you don't you don't want to do that you don't want to go up

00:52:45.020 there trust me they didn't want to let him anywhere near him but let alone inside that car inside that

00:52:50.300 wreckage to lay his hand on you and pray for you and and don i want to take a break here and we'll

00:52:56.700 come back and talk about because as he began praying eventually not only do you wake up but you

00:53:04.620 start to sing yes the hymn that he was singing while he was praying for you yes and what happens next

00:53:14.540 i mean that was the first miracle in a line of many but what happens next

00:53:19.100 is uh is just it's absolutely uh unbelievable if you're listening to this now it did happen this

00:53:25.340 has been recorded and of course the book is 90 minutes in heaven we'll be back with don piper

00:53:30.860 right after this it's justin barkley in for glenn beck today on the glenn beck program merry christmas

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00:54:51.900 he died but yet he's on the phone with us today talking with don piper author of 90

00:54:57.260 minutes in heaven and we just heard about how that horrific truck accident there on the highway

00:55:04.460 in texas guess about 37 odd years ago now left him dead inside that car yet he's here with us on the

00:55:12.140 phone and don was just talking about that moment where he he woke up i want to talk about what folks

00:55:18.780 want to hear about because i'm sure many have questions about heaven but we'll save that

00:55:23.580 for a little bit later don first i want to talk about the next steps because when you come back

00:55:32.220 you're not all out of the water yet i mean you you you have quite a bit to go through and and

00:55:37.660 much of that starts at that moment when folks realize this man is alive right it it does um

00:55:48.140 the reason i was singing with him is because he was making me sing he he kept encouraging me and and

00:55:54.380 it was he was trying to keep me conscious he was trying to make sure that i i uh i didn't lapse again

00:56:01.340 and uh i you know i the the collision was in excess of probably a hundred miles an hour ahead on collision

00:56:09.100 so uh anyone would have lost their life in this accident i was this is before airbags and so the

00:56:16.060 steering wheel had become horizontal and went into my chest um my the dashboard collapsed on both my

00:56:22.620 legs my right leg was broken at the knee my left leg was severed just above the knee and i uh four and

00:56:29.260 a half inches of my left femur we all know that's the largest bone in the human body that part of my leg

00:56:35.580 was ejected from the car and not found my left arm which i apparently had raised maybe i did see the

00:56:42.860 car the truck out of the corner by i don't remember that but it took my arm uh it separated the shoulder

00:56:48.940 and it just went over me into the back seat and from the middle of the left forearm uh it was just

00:56:57.340 twisted and broken and missing and so i missed all the bones the muscles were gone the skin was gone

00:57:03.660 anyone would have bled out in this accident in a matter of minutes maybe five minutes or less

00:57:10.620 if had their heart been beating but mine was not so i did not i did that blood coming out of my eyes

00:57:16.620 and ears nose very obvious brain damage and so it was uh just uh it couldn't been it could hardly

00:57:23.420 been more horrific than it was um and i was dead but uh people prayed and and god said yes he doesn't

00:57:31.500 always say yes when we pray for those kinds of things in my case he did but i did come back to

00:57:38.460 uh an incredible amount of uh operations of even some experimental surgeries and devices were placed

00:57:46.700 on me to try to save my arm and leg that had never been used before in this country and so i went through

00:57:53.180 a lot of um well 13 months in the hospital bed and many operations and infections and isolation ward

00:58:02.140 situations and it was just a roller coaster ride for almost three years before i walked into my own

00:58:10.060 church on my own unassisted and uh began to resume uh ministry which i was told would never happen so i do

00:58:19.020 believe in miracles i don't feel very miraculous but it is a miracle that i am alive today on every

00:58:26.700 level that that one can possibly imagine and i have had any functionality at all so i believe in

00:58:33.660 miracles i but you know i i believe that god is still in the miracle business and really christmas is

00:58:40.620 all about miracles it it a baby uh born in a uh an area that has had not distinguished whatsoever uh but

00:58:50.620 that was predicted to happen uh the bible says so all those things happen and so this is the time of

00:58:57.340 year when we remember uh a miracle occurred and and some other incredibly brilliant people had heard about

00:59:06.300 it they were looking for him also uh we call them kings and so many things happen uh that makes this

00:59:13.740 story uh unparalleled in the human history and so that's why this is such a an amazing time of year if

00:59:20.620 we focus on the christ at christmas it certainly is and i'm reminded i i'm here for another i'm another

00:59:27.740 christmas i made another one it is something and each day is a gift and we look at that and think about

00:59:34.700 the things if we really refocus on what matters no i think this is a great time of year to do that

00:59:39.420 and today because we have a pause in our our day-to-day we get a chance to see some of those

00:59:44.300 things that don i i'm here that i don't want to just completely uh just just brush right over this

00:59:51.020 uh because some folks may think well this is great this is you know sure that maybe that did happen

00:59:57.740 for you um but i haven't seen any miracles in my people are listening right now that are really hurting

01:00:04.060 yes and i i want to make sure that we address because you went through a long period of

01:00:08.700 rehabilitation where you maybe even asked the question of why god why oh sure yeah i want to

01:00:17.820 talk about the hospital bed asking that question every day uh don't we uh we got to take a break

01:00:23.980 here hang on i got to take a break unfortunately we'll come back and answer that question and also

01:00:28.860 folks want to know wait a minute you went to heaven what was that like i don't want to miss

01:00:33.500 that because boy that's a big piece of the story as well don piper author of 90 minutes in heaven

01:00:40.780 what was that hell like on earth after he came back we'll talk about that next when we're back on the

01:00:50.140 glen back program 888-727-beck is the number you can join us 888-727-beck i'm justin barkley in for glenn

01:01:02.220 today on a very special christmas eve edition of the glen back program merry christmas

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01:02:33.500 merry christmas

01:02:35.660 a very special program and a time to uh well to do something a little different

01:02:42.620 every you know every now and then we need a break

01:02:44.540 from the chaos from the insanity the hustle and bustle and a chance to sort of re

01:02:49.820 center and focus on what matters most this time of year

01:02:54.280 our guest don piper author of 90 minutes in heaven just talking about the story

01:03:00.760 he died 30 years ago or so in texas on a highway

01:03:04.920 but yet he's on with us today and talking about how that happened

01:03:09.640 how his life was saved what happened uh the miracle

01:03:14.600 that took place in the wreckage

01:03:17.880 boy what a metaphor for

01:03:20.760 each of our lives as i say that i just i'm struck by the fact that miracles can happen in

01:03:26.600 our wreckage and our mess no matter where we are no matter how bad off we think we are

01:03:31.960 um things can happen and they do every day don

01:03:35.880 they do um but you you can get uh killed in a car wreck on the way to church

01:03:40.920 you'd better be ready uh all the time

01:03:44.360 uh accidents do happen i never thought for a minute that this was some kind of

01:03:48.680 i mean i know this man didn't get in a truck that morning and say i want to go out and kill somebody

01:03:53.640 so it you know it just happens and it's not what happens to you it's what you do with it

01:03:58.280 um i lay there in the hospital bed uh for all those months and i i really became profoundly

01:04:04.840 depressed you say oh well you're you're a christian pastor would you know that they don't become

01:04:10.440 depressed well they certainly do uh maybe talking to some right now it i didn't i was given very

01:04:18.360 little hope i mean they didn't think they would be able to save my leg they didn't think that i

01:04:23.320 they would be able to save my arm i was going to be um um really maimed for the rest of my life

01:04:30.520 as it turns out they were able to do it through some very experimental mental procedures but

01:04:35.160 i really descended into depression i wanted to talk to somebody who understood what i was going

01:04:41.000 through and the devices they installed on me external fixators had never been put on uh

01:04:47.400 somebody on a femur before so i was in a unique situation where there was literally no one i could

01:04:52.840 talk to about this because no one had experienced this and uh that really that really set me back

01:04:59.480 a great deal and so one morning while i was really talking to god there was nobody in the hospital

01:05:04.200 room but but but me and him and i said to him why can't you send someone here who understands how

01:05:10.680 i feel if i could just talk to somebody that could give me some hope about the future whatever it is i

01:05:16.600 can handle it but i i'm living in such a period of uncertainty and i think christmas time is a time

01:05:22.200 when we reflect on that maybe we've lost a loved one this year maybe we are not in financial situation

01:05:27.720 where we could really provide for our family the way we want a lot of things may be going on

01:05:32.920 bankruptcy uh divorce all sorts of things and so i found myself in a not a hopeless situation but

01:05:39.560 a helpless situation and god spoke to me that morning and said it's not about you it's about what

01:05:46.040 i can do through you now that i could not do before the truck hit you you need to turn your test into

01:05:51.640 a testimony and your mess into a message and reach out to other people instead of you know pleading

01:05:59.240 with me god speaking uh about how i can help you you need to help other people because now you're

01:06:05.880 equipped in a better fashion than you ever were before the truck hit you you need to take the same

01:06:11.720 hand you're shaking at me and reach out to other people and help them up and that changed my life i'm

01:06:19.640 not a particularly outwardly emotionally person but i began to weep at that point and and continued to do

01:06:25.960 it till the sun came up the next morning and that was the first day of the rest of my life and so

01:06:31.480 what i've been trying to do uh ever since is trying to get people into heaven but also help them have a

01:06:36.920 better trip on the way and we can all do that we could take our our sum total of experiences instead of

01:06:43.640 having a pity party which i was having and reach out to other people and help them through and then we'll

01:06:48.440 understand why we went through that uh it was in preparation for ministering to other people so

01:06:55.720 that is what i gathered out of a lot of things that happen to me including get hit by head uh

01:07:01.400 head on by the two wheeler was to realize that we're really here to help everyone else get there

01:07:07.320 and uh that's what i do every day of my life that's what i'm doing right now it sounds like you

01:07:13.560 found your you really found and discovered your calling and and your purpose i did i had to get

01:07:19.560 by a truck to figure that out but i mean i did and and and listen god forbid that any of us have to

01:07:26.920 get hit by a truck to figure that out but thankfully you did so you could tell us about it no i wouldn't

01:07:33.880 wish it on anybody really uh but it as i said earlier it's not what happens to you it's what you do with

01:07:39.640 it and and so a lot of people have had a lot of things happen to us as we come to the end of

01:07:44.600 another year and it's and it's about the future it's about what we can do now to be a blessing to

01:07:49.560 other people and if we if we focus on that and we determine to do that god will help us do that

01:07:56.600 and then we'll know why we went through the things that we went through in 2019 and hope for a better

01:08:03.960 2020 and beyond and that's something that i think that's missing a lot from maybe our our conversation

01:08:13.480 these days you watch the news you turn on the tv and everything seems like the sky is falling but

01:08:18.840 there is hope you you're right uh justin it it can seem like an awfully dark night and i went through

01:08:25.720 a long series of dark nights uh even during the day and and so i do understand what it's like to be

01:08:32.680 uh you know hit the bottom there's one good thing that can happen when you hit the bottom you can

01:08:37.240 push off and and i did hit the bottom and and and you know i is if i needed to i know now uh why i'm here

01:08:46.440 every day and um it's it is it is to help people uh get to heaven and and and on a day-to-day basis help them

01:08:55.320 have a better life now that really is what christmas is about and uh as we turn the page on another year

01:09:03.640 and they are relentless uh maybe this is the year when we can we can we can leave a lot of that stuff

01:09:10.520 behind the things that just bind us and uh and capture us and and beat us down i i i believe in

01:09:19.880 that i think it's crucial and uh hopefully for a lot of people who are listening this will be a

01:09:25.160 turning point i want to talk about what it was like in heaven for you but first don i hear you saying

01:09:32.600 that one of the keys that you learned to having a better life now is shifting your focus from you

01:09:41.240 your mess and your wreckage and shifting it towards others in a way to to serve and maybe

01:09:49.560 help other people is that is that what i'm hearing it absolutely is um we can we can concentrate and

01:09:57.320 focus on the wrecks in our life and let's face it uh there are going to be some if there haven't been

01:10:03.960 any there will be and i'm not trying to be pessimistic i want to be realistic but it's not

01:10:09.640 it's not that it we can we can be devastated and we will be and we can be hurt and we will be and we

01:10:16.520 can have a lot of things happen but if we stay there if we live in that kind of condition then

01:10:21.880 that is no life that is not a life uh we but we start looking beyond ourselves when we start looking

01:10:28.360 at other people who have similar situations uh and hold their hand and say understand how you feel

01:10:34.360 they found somebody who gets it and that's all i ever wanted i just wanted to find somebody who get

01:10:40.520 who understood what i was going through we all go through terrible things but it's it's that's not the

01:10:46.040 point the point is getting through the terrible thing and then looking around for opportunities

01:10:50.920 where you can help someone else do the same thing and and then you kind of understand okay now i know

01:10:57.000 why i went through that it was to prepare me to help these people get through to the other side and when

01:11:03.240 you do that it'll put a whole new it'll it'll be a whole new chapter in your life it'll be a discovery

01:11:08.840 that will give you hope and hope is really all we we have in life is is hope hope that tomorrow

01:11:16.280 will be a good day that hope that we'll get the job that we're trying to get hope that we'll pay the

01:11:21.880 bills you know hope that we have a healthy existence uh there's no guarantees i mean the one guarantee in

01:11:29.160 life is that this ends and you need to be ready for what happens next but we can have a meaningful

01:11:35.320 life on the way even though it always won't be perfect uh it it is if we have a goal and we're

01:11:41.960 trying to look beyond ourselves and reach out to other people then we really can make a difference

01:11:47.160 when it's all over don piper's on with us right now author of 90 minutes in heaven and that book you

01:11:53.160 can read more about the story and in doubt they actually did a movie about it as well but what was it

01:11:57.240 like in heaven we talk about making this trip there a better place and how you can make this

01:12:04.120 life a better trip on the way back let me talk about that and what he experienced maybe in heaven

01:12:09.960 don when we come back we're going to take a quick break we're back in just a few minutes here

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01:13:31.320 hey merry christmas it's justin barkley in for glenn today on the glenbeck program and a

01:13:47.720 special day a special christmas eve edition of looking back program and we're talking with don

01:13:53.480 piper author of 90 minutes in heaven don piper ministries.com well we've talked about how he

01:14:00.440 died on that road in texas all those years ago and how he came back what that road was like before

01:14:07.240 him after he came back in the and all the pain and the wreckage he went through but the most important

01:14:15.320 part is that god brought him back and now don you know people really want to know what it was like in

01:14:20.360 heaven so i don't want to waste any more time we've only got a few minutes to describe this

01:14:26.920 can you give us five minutes in heaven five minutes in heaven see there's another book uh

01:14:33.960 for someone out there well i came back so i could be on the glenbeck show today with you

01:14:42.440 i i um i immediately the moment the truck struck me was standing at the gates of heaven

01:14:48.600 the bible tells us in revelation uh that there are 12 gates in heaven and that we will be at one of

01:14:55.320 them and um i was there uh i didn't go down a long tunnel to win the bright light at the end of the

01:15:00.840 tunnel i i do think that's an authentic experience but i think when you're a hundred mile an hour

01:15:05.880 collision you're just there and i was surrounded by people i had known and loved in life and had

01:15:11.960 preceded me in death um i i was somewhat shocked by that not that they were there but they knew i

01:15:20.040 was coming i i believe everyone in heaven knows who's coming um the bible says that when we when

01:15:27.160 we trust the lord when we give our hearts to him our names are immediately written in a book up there

01:15:34.040 like a registration book that they call the lamb's book of life and so the people in heaven are expecting

01:15:39.800 us and they were and i was greeted by the people who actually helped me get there there were people

01:15:45.080 who took me to church when i was a kid before i was a believer they gave me a bible when i didn't have

01:15:50.600 one they certainly lived a christian life in front of me so i knew what one was even though i wasn't one

01:15:56.440 yet and and so their influence on me their witness to me caused me to be in a position where i knew one

01:16:04.040 day that's what i needed to do and i made that decision to go at this at the age of 16 i just

01:16:10.200 wasn't planning to die at 38 on a lonely highway in east texas who is who who knows when that day is

01:16:17.480 we we we don't jesus had the last supper we don't we're going to have one one day too we just won't

01:16:23.320 know what it is so i wasn't planning to die that day nor were any of the people who greeted me but they

01:16:29.480 were prepared when the time came no matter whether they were eighty or eighteen and some of them had

01:16:35.400 been those ages when they were uh tragically killed or died of an illness or old age so above them was

01:16:43.640 this magnificent gate looks like the inside of an oyster it is made of pearl truly it is a gate made

01:16:50.040 of pearl um i could see inside the gate there seems to be a a boulevard uh leading to the center of the

01:16:57.640 city and it is a city uh with uh high walls and the thick uh thick walls as a matter of fact

01:17:04.120 and uh i could see through this down this golden boulevard to a pinnacle high and lifted up uh there

01:17:10.680 are thrones at the top of that pinnacle the brightest light i have ever seen is emanating from that throne

01:17:17.160 i uh i went through angels they're everywhere i could not only hear their voices i could hear their wings

01:17:23.960 actually flapping above me i believe they're the ones who bear us up to heaven i heard music unlike

01:17:30.840 any music i've ever heard here and and there was a lot of it thousands of songs at the same time

01:17:36.680 without chaos because they were symbiotic they all fit together um i experienced colors i've never seen

01:17:44.520 before heaven is a sensory explosion it is simply the most real thing that's ever happened to me and um

01:17:54.200 i i wasn't thinking about earth i didn't miss people down here i expected them uh and so you don't miss

01:18:01.080 them and since no time is passing uh they'll immediately arrive uh for us uh because uh made

01:18:08.200 decades may pass here but there are no decades in heaven so people in heaven don't miss you they

01:18:13.560 expect you it was a glorious experience uh they greeted me we exchanged uh love for each other sometimes

01:18:22.680 verbally and sometimes without even speaking uh we did move forward because i obviously wanted to

01:18:28.600 go inside that's what i was there for and i did go inside i approached the the gate which is not the

01:18:36.120 the portal is not very big it's really just big enough for one person and that is how we get into

01:18:41.480 heaven one at a time and so i'm going in the wall is very thick and emerging on the inside and and

01:18:47.320 thinking i want to move as down this boulevard as fast as possible i want to approach that hill

01:18:54.040 and fall at the feet of the great god of all creation and and try to verbalize if i could thank

01:19:00.040 you for letting me come but i got a chance i know that there's far more to this story and if folks want

01:19:08.760 to read the book they should get it it is a fantastic book 90 minutes in heaven they made a movie out of it

01:19:13.960 to don piper ministries.com i just want to thank you for being here with us today don honor and

01:19:19.560 sharing some hope with us thank you my very best uh glenn and uh i'm delighted to be here merry

01:19:25.800 christmas to everyone and certainly a wonderful new year merry christmas don we're back next with

01:19:32.120 more of this very special merry christmas christmas eve edition of the glenn beck program i'm justin

01:19:39.160 barclay in for glenn you're listening to glenn beck

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01:20:01.880 it is justin barclay in for glenn today on the glenn beck program very special

01:20:06.840 christmas eve edition and we've talked all morning about the opportunity we have to pause

01:20:12.040 to take a breath in this moment to clear the hustle and the bustle and focus on what really matters

01:20:19.080 instead of the news that's often noise coming through our speakers watching on tv and of course

01:20:25.720 out of washington dc enough hot air uh to uh really to pause and take a moment on what matters most

01:20:33.320 or reflect so i want to give you an opportunity to weigh in too because i think that's an advantage

01:20:39.160 we have we talked about all the great things that are happening the economy and all the main

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01:20:48.680 were told would never come back all these things we were told life is just going to be different but

01:20:53.240 we have an amazing way of life these days and if we focus on the good i think we'll find out more of

01:20:59.160 it and like to do some of that i want to share some good news and if you've got some we'll give

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01:22:12.120 it's justin justin barkley back on the glenbeck program merry christmas and like i said i want to

01:22:26.680 focus on some of the good things because when you when you look for it you'll find it there's

01:22:33.480 something interesting that happens in our brains matter of fact this is kind of a biblical thing they

01:22:38.680 talk about seek and you shall find in the bible but scientists have found something

01:22:44.120 to confirm this there is something inside of our brain card the r-a-s the reticular activating system

01:22:51.080 it's kind of like the new car effect so what happens is you go shopping for a new car and you find that

01:22:55.480 beautiful machine that you want if you've ever had a chance to do this you you look at it you look at

01:23:02.520 all maybe a bunch of different models but you find the one that you you land on right and and you're in

01:23:09.080 and you sign the paperwork and you're ready to drive off that lot and the minute you do

01:23:15.960 something interesting happens let's say you got a bright red volkswagen beetle you drive that bug out

01:23:23.320 and then you're driving down the road and you know you are feeling pretty special but you start to notice

01:23:32.040 well there's another one and there's another one and there's another one and i cut you see them

01:23:36.920 everywhere i look

01:23:40.440 that's a reticular activating system it's a pattern recognition

01:23:45.400 system that happens inside of our brains so what you look for

01:23:52.360 you'll find more of

01:23:55.320 that's why i choose to focus on the good in matter of fact i'm going to give you a chance

01:23:58.760 to help us all do that today and focus on the good i think we are stronger together here

01:24:07.160 we can do great things with the help of each other and i would love to see what's good and what's

01:24:14.280 happening in your life we're in your neck of the woods you got something magical something miraculous

01:24:23.720 so just something special that you want to share with us

01:24:28.120 here's the number triple eight seven two seven beck that's one eight eight eight seven two seven

01:24:35.640 b e c k i'm gonna go to the phone lines i'll give you a chance to to share but first i want to welcome

01:24:42.920 in a couple of guests who are doing some great things a chance to shine a spotlight on some amazing

01:24:47.720 things that are happening because there is no shortage sure we hear a lot about the craziness

01:24:52.840 but there's no shortage of good things that are happening right here on a daily basis

01:24:59.880 probably right underneath your nose if you only look for them you'll find them

01:25:03.240 taia kyle the wife of chris kyle you probably remember and saw that film

01:25:09.080 american sniper chris kyle foundation is the foundation

01:25:12.440 taia joins us along with adam davis from the chris kyle foundation today welcome to the program we

01:25:16.840 appreciate you guys being here with us and merry christmas merry christmas thank you justin

01:25:23.800 oh taia just dropped off we're gonna try and get her back on our elves are working behind the scenes

01:25:29.000 uh but adam we want to give you

01:25:32.440 it's a christmas miracle we'll get her back on uh i want to give you a chance to talk about what is

01:25:37.480 happening of course maybe some of the things that you all are working on right now and some of the great

01:25:44.040 things that you do with the chris kyle foundation um and where it where it got its start tell us a

01:25:51.800 little bit about who chris was hey hey i just jumped back on hey taia how are you you know we got you

01:26:00.200 back and uh and then we lost adam so they're gonna get they're gonna get adam back but i think you're

01:26:05.560 you're probably best to tell us yeah yeah no it's good for you to see how well you can jump around

01:26:10.520 this morning and wake you up a little bit yeah i um and chris was obviously it's such a great guy and

01:26:17.400 had a tremendous sense of humor he was a loving father he's great husband and i think part of what

01:26:24.840 people are finding they really relate to is that he really had this desire to be just himself and not

01:26:31.480 the picture of what maybe everybody would want him to be and he didn't get affected by

01:26:36.360 notoriety i think that's the coolest thing about him is that he was just himself you saw him on tv

01:26:43.480 the same way you see him at the house i mean maybe um you know i don't think people got to see as much

01:26:49.800 of his humor except for maybe a the conan o'brien interview i think is on youtube and that one i think

01:26:54.840 people got to see him laugh a little bit more but he was always laughing and had that sparkle in his eye and

01:26:59.640 i think that's a part of him that i wish more people got to see

01:27:05.240 what is the chris kyle foundation yes it's the chris kyle frog foundation and and the reason there's

01:27:11.720 the word frog in there is that navy seals are also known as frogmen land and water and so

01:27:18.440 that fallen seal is represented by a skeleton of a frog that was near and dear to chris's heart so it's

01:27:24.920 a horrible business or marketing thing to do to have named it the chris kyle frog foundation because

01:27:30.040 nobody knows what that is really but but it was a sentimental thing and we started after he was

01:27:34.920 killed because chris and i had discussed and we're working toward trying to start something to help

01:27:40.200 more families originally we wanted to help a couple of families and then as we started down that process

01:27:45.000 we just realized that the mission was much better if we could serve more families with proceeds from the

01:27:50.520 book and anything else that we got in that way so we have this foundation now that is to honor and

01:27:58.040 serve the marriages of those who serve and we realized that there's this missing puzzle piece

01:28:03.480 people want to have understandably they want pts to be treated properly i do too we're not going to find

01:28:10.120 that in the va typically and we want to decrease alcohol and drug addiction we certainly want to decrease

01:28:17.400 suicide and what studies are showing is that 80 of the suicides are relationship related in this

01:28:24.040 community i feel like that's a really important thing for people to realize because they see more

01:28:30.280 evil in the world than others the world is not a safe beautiful place a lot of times when you're

01:28:35.080 fighting evil consistently and so they need a safe place at home perhaps even more than other people do

01:28:41.160 and when that's in peril and it often is because it's a difficult lifestyle and there are no

01:28:47.480 previously there have been no tools for them to deal with these marriages differently than you would

01:28:52.040 a civilian marriage but we've at the chris kyle frog foundation we've been able to work with baylor

01:28:56.440 university and develop a curriculum for these couples as well as for civilian counselors who can now come

01:29:03.560 get continuing education credits through baylor university and learn about the service marriage because it's

01:29:09.160 just different i'm i'm just super excited about it i feel honored and blessed to be able to lead the

01:29:13.800 charge and we've got some conversations that are going to happen nationally to highlight this as the

01:29:20.360 missing puzzle piece right you can you can help all of these issues if you can get the couple at home on

01:29:27.000 the same team to be healthy and whole right now they're both just depleted and isolated even within

01:29:33.480 the marriage and that's not you know that's not going to work for healing you know we're talking

01:29:39.000 with teah kyle right now wife of uh chris kyle chris kyle frog foundation and we'll tell you a little

01:29:45.400 bit more how to help here in just a moment but teah refresh our memory and let me know exactly um

01:29:51.720 how how did chris uh lose his life what happened yeah so you know he was always helping people and i

01:29:58.920 think that's another part of him that he just it was part of him he did it quietly he did it on the

01:30:03.000 side he didn't do it for any fanfare and so whether it was a storm and he just went out and started

01:30:08.040 helping neighbors truly driving around looking for people to help knowing people were in need that

01:30:13.720 was just a part of his personality and his heart so when he was dropping our kids off at elementary

01:30:19.960 school there was a mom who came out and tearfully said that her son needed some help and had pps so

01:30:26.200 of course chris went out of his way to go talk to her in a manner that would be comfortable for her

01:30:30.840 and find out more he you know had no idea that this guy who eventually murdered chris and his friend

01:30:39.880 chad had the issues that he had the mom to my understanding didn't express any of those things

01:30:47.000 which would have been really important information life-saving information for chris

01:30:51.240 she communicated that her son had pts ptsd psychiatrists in the murder trial testified that

01:30:58.760 he did not have any traumatic event in his life he didn't have pts he never saw combat it was

01:31:04.200 even outside of the military according to them he didn't have trauma so it appeared to me in my

01:31:09.880 opinion this guy was using it to get out of trouble and to get things handed to him and so chris unknowingly

01:31:17.400 went and did what he'd done with hundreds of other veterans he took him out to a peaceful place and

01:31:22.360 he said hey do you like to shoot the guy seemed really excited about it and so he went to great

01:31:28.120 effort left his family chris left our family on a saturday morning took his friend chad littlefield

01:31:33.720 they went and drove an hour it was supposed to give the guy time to talk and just be at peace and

01:31:38.200 kind of unwind and then they would go shoot they brought some different guns like old west replicas and

01:31:43.640 just some things that would kind of be guys outdoors able to focus on some things instead

01:31:49.400 of sitting across the table you know with eyes piercing into each other so this works really well

01:31:53.800 for people all the time and this guy just made a choice for evil in my opinion i mean that's that's

01:32:00.120 i don't know any other way to describe it he waited for a brief window of time and he if not

01:32:05.720 simultaneously then back to back killed chad and chris multiple gunshots you know up and down their their

01:32:12.680 bodies and he had to wait until a perfect i mean there was like one second two second window that

01:32:18.200 he would have had to do this and and he did it you know he said later he sold his soul for a truck i mean

01:32:24.600 you know he took chris's truck and and took off so and then was making a run for it i mean you know

01:32:30.440 you can't even say really insanity because insanity means you don't know right from wrong and he clearly

01:32:36.120 did at this point when he made these choices and then left so anyway long story short or i guess yeah he

01:32:42.680 he died doing what he lived doing which was helping people we lost a hero we lost a brave man and one

01:32:49.640 of the best of us that day but what what's fascinating to me is that he lives on and his spirit lives on

01:32:56.920 and what you've chosen to do uh pick up the pieces and move forward and and tay i want to share more

01:33:02.600 about that because that's the important part here tayo kyle joins us the chris krog chris kyle frog

01:33:08.200 foundation a quick break and we're back right after this in 90 seconds it's justin barkley

01:33:12.840 in for glenn today on the glenn beck program

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01:34:27.320 got to give you a chance to join in and give us some good news today share some of those bright

01:34:30.840 things because i believe there are plenty of them to go around in our world today

01:34:35.720 triple eight seven two seven beck that's eight eight eight seven two seven b-e-c-k it's justin

01:34:40.440 barkley and for glenn back today on the glenn back program and uh on the phone with us take

01:34:44.600 kyle chris kyle's wife the chris kyle frog foundation is the name of the foundation just

01:34:50.520 talking a little bit about who chris was and and his legacy living on today i'm going to share a

01:34:55.640 little bit more about how that's happening and some of the positive things that are happening and

01:35:00.040 she's chosen to move forward this way adam davis joins to a good friend and author behind the badge

01:35:05.320 and bulletproof marriage and i know adam working closely with the foundation now and and

01:35:10.200 to do some great things welcome back on guys we appreciate you being here thank you for having

01:35:15.160 me jester so let's let's pick up now where folks are uh we're seeing some major i mean i you just go

01:35:22.520 to the website and you can read more about what's happening but some major things are happening some

01:35:27.240 people uh lives being restored families being brought together and saved in a lot of ways because

01:35:32.680 of the work you guys are doing yeah it's been really an honor and i'd love to let adam talk a little

01:35:38.600 bit more about his experiences but it was cool when i felt like it was this divine intervention

01:35:43.560 where adam and i met and had this shared mission i know you know justin we talked a little bit about

01:35:48.920 the fact that marriage is this missing puzzle piece that most people don't see the importance of but

01:35:54.360 they're starting to we're starting that national conversation that it's the missing puzzle piece

01:35:58.760 that so many issues that our veterans and their families are facing so when i met up with adam and

01:36:03.480 saw that he was already on that same page he had written bulletproof marriage which is this incredible

01:36:08.200 devotional makes it simple ask questions of these couples i could see that he was on the same page of

01:36:13.880 diving into how do we make this simple for service couples when marriage is a complex issue but you know

01:36:21.080 how do we do that and help them save themselves and their families so adam you know tell them a little

01:36:25.560 bit more i guess about how you got down that journey and what brought you there

01:36:28.520 you know it really was born out of a place of of need as a former law enforcement officer

01:36:38.120 i would go and search for resources and wanted to provide something that was really relevant and

01:36:45.000 applicable and easy to implement and that's what bulletproof marriage is i co-authored it with

01:36:52.120 lieutenant colonel dave grossman and um he introduced me to my friend marcus luttrell and marcus introduced

01:37:00.200 me to tayo and we had a few conversations and she narrated the audio version of bulletproof marriage

01:37:04.920 so graciously and it comes packed with about three hours of bonus discussions so you you basically have

01:37:11.800 an audio book and podcast all in one which is very unique uh but it was really born out of a place of of

01:37:19.080 need that's that's where it came from um i know that i was in a very dark place and had it not been

01:37:26.120 for a strong marriage uh i don't know where i'd be today and um it's not always easy but uh it's something

01:37:33.800 that if you put the work in and if you put together some some very practical tips and some daily work

01:37:40.280 um it can you can really make it work and it will not just survive you can thrive and you can have the best life

01:37:45.880 uh a better life you ever dreamed of if you're willing to do the work and so a huge honor to be

01:37:51.800 able to work alongside the the team at the chris kyle frog foundation with tay and and to be able to

01:37:56.680 sort of multiply the efforts and i mean we are truly better together you know we i was just thinking the

01:38:02.440 same thing and we uh we're stronger with each other we need each other we step up and and take care of

01:38:07.800 each other especially these folks have gone on and served uh they deserve our service when they come back

01:38:13.560 uh no matter whether that be here at home or uh overseas we we've got to step up and do the right

01:38:19.640 thing i know that you are making these things happen tay and adam by folks stepping up and doing some

01:38:25.800 things together to help chris kyle frog foundation dot com or is it dot org which one is it dot org ckf.org yeah

01:38:34.440 so if you want to go uh you can help out tell us a little bit how we can help out and what we can do to

01:38:39.640 make maybe take a stand and say look we're gonna we're gonna make sure that we take care of these

01:38:45.240 folks who've served us yeah we have a couple of different ways if they go to the website as you

01:38:50.760 said it's chris kyle frog foundation dot org one of the unique things that we did is we created a

01:38:55.720 warriors club and that's something that people can sign up for monthly they get different perks with

01:39:01.000 different levels of sponsorship but it can be as low as a dollar ninety nine a month and it goes up from

01:39:06.360 there but i i feel like that's the one easy way to just monthly donate a little bit and we're we've

01:39:12.440 really done some hard work to try to figure out how we can get the best bang for our buck and when we

01:39:19.240 help these married couples we stay with them for two years and so these families are staying together

01:39:24.360 with longevity from us a commitment that we're not going to just one and done leave them and i think

01:39:30.680 that makes a big difference and certainly is one of the ways that we're very very unique so funding

01:39:35.160 tends to be our biggest issue since it is a long-term project i think that's that's one way

01:39:40.360 and then aside from what we're doing with the foundation and there are other ways you know

01:39:44.520 buying our merchandise and all that stuff helps but i think the other part of this is to spread the

01:39:50.120 awareness that marriage is the issue i know a lot of people in the civilian world think that you know

01:39:56.520 marriage is just marriage some work some don't yes we see the impact on the family but it's so

01:40:00.760 different for these service couples they either get stationed to another state and don't see their

01:40:05.720 kids anymore or they don't have treatment for issues related to stress and they are more i think

01:40:15.480 you know prone to some different addiction things because they're trying to escape the evils of the

01:40:19.800 world that they see and they're evils we can't really imagine the things that they see with domestic

01:40:24.760 violence child abuse overseas and at home the terrorist murder i mean you know the worst of

01:40:31.480 the worst is what they face and they need our support they don't know if they should bring it

01:40:35.080 home to their spouse and connect or if they should not bring it home i mean the the issues facing them

01:40:40.120 are much different and so they need our help so awareness is a big deal to be a friend to their

01:40:46.040 marriage if you know somebody that is in the service community you'll find a way to be a good ear and to

01:40:52.440 encourage them to keep their marriage and find find them either help that um is is around for

01:41:00.360 them either i mean there just aren't that many options though there are sacred spaces which

01:41:04.360 and adam there there is an option that folks now are are being able to plug into and that's the

01:41:09.480 chris kyle frog foundation chris kyle frog foundation dot org is where you can go to help out

01:41:15.000 we're back with more good news you can share right after this on the glenn beck program

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01:42:21.960 oh man i just

01:42:46.600 i i always say this it's wild to me uh to be here with you today on such a special day

01:42:56.680 in so many different ways and and i will share with you why it's so special to me here it's

01:43:02.280 justin barkley in for glenn on the glenn beck program

01:43:06.120 it's

01:43:12.360 it's pretty wild let me let me tell you

01:43:16.120 it is

01:43:17.800 much as i can in the most condensed way what has happened to me in my life

01:43:23.640 and the dramatic change and transformation that's occurred in the last nine months

01:43:27.160 i am truly grateful to be here but in more ways than one

01:43:36.520 and as i look back it is no doubt to me that the dots connect

01:43:48.040 in the last nine months i've lost 82 pounds

01:43:50.760 i have reunited with my birth mother and biological father and the families

01:43:59.960 of both

01:44:02.040 after 40 years

01:44:05.800 and throughout this entire process

01:44:09.000 a fire has been lit inside of me

01:44:13.640 reignited

01:44:15.160 and restored

01:44:16.760 a deeper meaning and deeper purpose

01:44:22.680 a revealing of my identity who i am and what

01:44:26.840 i'm supposed to do

01:44:31.560 and why does that

01:44:33.480 matter and why should you care it's because

01:44:38.520 it directly affects you and who you are

01:44:40.600 and i'll share more about this at some other time

01:44:47.720 and i share more actually on my website at justinbarclay.com if you ever want to email

01:44:53.080 me or just reach out and say hi

01:44:55.160 and talk about anything justin at justinbarclay b-a-r-c-l-a-y dot com

01:45:00.920 that'd be a great place to do it

01:45:03.160 but i started in radio because it's all i ever wanted to do as a kid

01:45:06.520 i started in radio

01:45:14.840 23 years ago today

01:45:20.600 my first job

01:45:23.560 was on christmas eve at a country radio station i had to play

01:45:27.720 the christmas country music

01:45:31.480 and boy i was excited to do it in high school

01:45:33.800 i i think the only reason they gave me this job is because they needed somebody then is

01:45:40.040 before they had the computers running everything

01:45:42.120 they needed somebody then just to keep the radio station on the air

01:45:46.600 yeah we'll trust this kid to do it he can't screw up much

01:45:52.680 and i did i was thrilled to do it one of the greatest gifts

01:45:56.440 and today ranks up there right there with them

01:46:07.160 but i've had so many great gifts throughout my life i've really been blessed

01:46:12.280 it would take me a full hour to go through everything that's happened in my life i'll tell

01:46:15.720 you that i was adopted and the story is very simple

01:46:18.200 the family that adopted me tried and tried to have kids my mother and father through multiple

01:46:25.800 miscarriages they just couldn't have a child of their own

01:46:32.520 and so they decided they would adopt and they would give

01:46:39.720 another child a home

01:46:41.320 they got the word that they were going to get me and this is amazing the miraculous fact that the dots

01:46:49.160 connect is not lost in me because i look back and see that god had a plan this is fascinating that

01:46:54.840 i and i just learned this maybe a couple of months ago i came home to live with them

01:47:02.920 yep they picked me up a day after my mom's birthday

01:47:11.320 she'd been through a lot watching other friends and family and folks have children i can't imagine the

01:47:19.400 pressure and of course the thoughts that were in her head

01:47:27.400 the questions she might have had for god and possibly the anger

01:47:35.960 but there was a gift for them a little baby boy

01:47:41.320 now i was given a gift because i was given a home

01:47:47.800 can you imagine that if i told you all of these things are connected these things that i've been

01:47:52.920 telling you about because they are

01:47:55.560 can you imagine that my brother was born

01:47:59.640 a year later their biological son now this is not uncommon this does happen quite a bit

01:48:09.640 usually when the pressure comes off things like that but god has a funny way of working things out

01:48:13.320 doesn't he

01:48:16.280 he's got a plan

01:48:21.320 there were so many ways and in so many instances throughout my life that i look back now seeing that

01:48:26.920 everything has led me here to where i am today and i think everything has led each of us to where we are

01:48:31.880 when we look back we will focus and find that the dots do connect

01:48:39.240 one of the things that's important and able to see that happen

01:48:43.080 it's to develop and cultivate the spirit of gratitude

01:48:50.440 and so i start each day with a very simple thing i thank god for three things usually i just make a

01:48:54.760 little note write down in a little journal the three things that i'm thankful for now and it could

01:48:59.560 be anything in america i'll tell you this much it could be everything but simply the fact that we walk

01:49:05.480 into the bathroom in the morning flip on a light switch and we have electricity and light like that

01:49:12.360 it could be that when you walk over to the shower and you turn on the water

01:49:16.120 you have hot water oh and it's clean many places in the world where they don't

01:49:25.720 so looking for those things as i said earlier focusing on the good makes all the difference

01:49:31.080 it's allowed me to see the dots have connected

01:49:39.160 giving thanks for the blessings has led to more blessings

01:49:43.000 back in march on march 1st there was a letter in my mailbox it was from the department of health

01:49:52.280 from the state that i was born in i knew immediately what it was because earlier the previous year they

01:49:58.280 had just passed a law where they could unseal the records and adoptees could go find their birth

01:50:02.360 parents now i wanted to know who i was where i came from medical information history things like that

01:50:11.560 but i really wanted to know

01:50:16.760 the story i had bits and pieces of it but turned out not much of it was true some of it was one thing

01:50:24.760 my birth mother had requested i be raised in a home where they would bring me to church

01:50:30.200 and as i said

01:50:33.480 he had a plan the dots connect

01:50:39.160 so 40 years later when i'm ripping open this piece of paper and in tearing into the envelope and

01:50:43.960 i stare at it for the first time i see there it is my birth mother's name

01:50:47.480 i see who she is

01:50:52.840 i give it to a friend of mine who's a private investigator in ohio

01:51:00.760 and he's able to find her and get her on the phone within an hour

01:51:07.000 i find out i have a brother they have a very close relationship as i can imagine they would

01:51:12.520 she wants to tell him the good news and then she'll get in contact with me the next day so i

01:51:20.280 go to bed that night heartful very happy optimistic and hopeful that the next day i'm going to learn

01:51:25.560 some more things some new information but i wake up in the middle of the night because i think god

01:51:29.240 just woke me up like about 3 a.m and i do what i probably shouldn't do what i normally would not

01:51:35.560 recommend but i reach over and i grab that phone and i just think to myself not having any more

01:51:41.480 information just her maiden name i wonder if i put that into facebook if i can find her and sure

01:51:46.760 enough

01:51:49.640 i do she pops right up

01:51:54.440 there she is

01:51:57.720 my mama for the first time i'm looking at somebody and a picture of someone who looks like me now i know

01:52:06.040 you may take that for granted because you probably grew up like this has always been your life but i have

01:52:10.840 never been able to look at someone else and look into the eyes of someone staring back at me who looked

01:52:16.920 just like me so i scrolled through pictures i looked at other folks family members brothers cousins

01:52:25.480 aunts uncles you name it and for the first time i saw folks who look just like me

01:52:31.320 and a thought popped in my head

01:52:37.880 at 355 pounds at this point i'm scrolling on the facebook looking at my phone in the middle of the

01:52:43.320 night thinking to myself

01:52:47.400 hmm

01:52:49.720 these other folks are average or fit or

01:52:53.720 normal looking maybe i don't have

01:52:59.880 to be heavy see i've been always heavy throughout my entire life even as a kid

01:53:06.680 but the next thought i think is the thought that changed did everything

01:53:13.080 it went from maybe i don't have to be heavy to maybe

01:53:16.680 i'm not supposed to be

01:53:18.520 in that very moment i didn't realize it but that

01:53:22.520 single thought set off a chain reaction one after one where the dots connected leading even to this day

01:53:33.640 losing 80 pounds reuniting with these folks rediscovering and reigniting a purpose of fire

01:53:38.520 burning deep inside of me that wasn't quite there before

01:53:42.520 i've been through some really dark nights

01:53:53.080 i'm just here to tell you today

01:53:58.280 that there is a bright shining light

01:54:01.400 and that hope is a real thing

01:54:06.680 share some good news with you and i'd hope you'd share some good news with me

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01:54:17.560 i'm going to give you an opportunity to do just that today

01:54:20.920 as we put the wraps on a very special christmas eve edition of the glenbeck program it has been an honor

01:54:26.440 it has been a privilege

01:54:28.520 a sheer joy to share this this moment and this day with you

01:54:32.520 we're back right after this it's justin barkley in for glen today on the glenbeck program

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01:55:57.720 hey it's justin barclay get more good news justinbarclay.com i'd like to share that and i'd love

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01:56:12.760 james in ohio who's up first on the glenbeck program merry christmas james how are you uh merry

01:56:19.720 christmas it's an honor to be here i just was driving in my car and uh i heard the story of the gentleman

01:56:26.280 who'd been in heaven for nine hours and then i mean for an hour and a half and then you said

01:56:30.440 and called in if you had a christmas miracle well i'm 75 years old and 38 and a half years ago i

01:56:38.360 pastored the tiffin assemblies of god church here in ohio i had a heart attack that lasted 13 hours

01:56:45.960 that's a long time 38 and a half years ago and uh coming into sunday morning uh we had a guest speaker

01:56:54.520 from columbus come in and speak for me because i was in the midst of the heart attack and about

01:57:00.200 nine o'clock sunday morning or so they told my wife there wasn't much they could do i was not

01:57:06.360 responding to the medication they had a blood thinner back then called heparin and so it was all

01:57:12.440 in god's hands well long story short the guy who came in i had the church pray for an hour and a half

01:57:18.840 instead of preaching and my heart attack stopped during that hour and a half then then it was a long

01:57:25.400 recovery it was a year before i even got to preach again and the lord brought me through it and my

01:57:31.480 doctor 10 months after the heart attack my family doctor good christian hectic man said jim we believe

01:57:38.280 there is faith in god and prayer that kept you alive wow and i said to my doc i said to my doctor vella

01:57:45.800 john vella i said can i quote you and he said why i said well because our church prince thinks you just

01:57:52.120 gave god credit for something you couldn't do and so he wrote the medical side had the lady in my

01:57:58.760 church who wrote for readers digest some articles and christian that that's an incredible story buddy

01:58:04.920 i mean that that's something else and that is a christmas miracle aj in michigan i gotta i appreciate

01:58:09.720 your calling to run through some of these if i can't aj you're up next hey justin how you doing

01:58:14.200 you're live on the air buddy we only got about 30 seconds okay real quick i think uh well first of all

01:58:19.800 my uh one of my big gifts i think i receive here is i'm like you i got down a little bit in my weight

01:58:26.200 i'm 40 a little over 40 pounds and that sir is partially due to you uh you get some credit on

01:58:34.120 that one so that's kind of a merry christmas to you wow but also uh you you've been talking about the

01:58:40.520 things that are you know making these things real i think part of it is realizing that god is real

01:58:45.800 and he's in control so whatever happens throughout our day through our life the news we just have to

01:58:51.480 realize that we also need to be gracious and give gratitude i think not realizing even the little

01:58:58.680 things we anticipate these big holidays and big major things in our life we miss the little things

01:59:04.680 from day to day yeah and that's right well aj and i appreciate your phone call thank you buddy i you

01:59:11.480 know that means a lot to me i'll tell you right now it's not lost to me there are little things just

01:59:15.240 the fact that we can be here with each other today and that you're taking breaths drawing them in and

01:59:20.120 out i have a friend right now as family like family brother whose mother's in the hospital and

01:59:29.240 i really would appreciate your prayers for them in this time i wish you all the very best this

01:59:35.800 merry christmas justinbarclay.com it's a pleasure thank you glenn beck program you're listening to glenn

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The Glenn Beck Program - December 24, 2019

What Really Matters？｜ Guests： Justin Barclay, Monica Sparks, Jessica Anne Tyson, Don Piper, Taya Kyle & Adam Davis ｜ 12⧸24⧸19

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