Welcome to the God's Goodness podcast, where our mission is to encourage and highlight God's
Goodness and modern-day miracles. We are your hosts, Josh and Shelley Hankins. Today we have
with us a special guest. We have Danielle Bounce with us. She and I got to know one another,
our pizza in the park, and I was talking with her and Tiffany Dawson. Some of you may have listened
to her episode, a heavenly message, if you haven't checked it out. But Danielle was talking and she
and Tiffany had so much in common. And listening to her story of the last few years, it's evident
that God was working in her life. And I was like, ah, we got to share this because it illustrates
God's goodness in her life. And that's our mission. So with that, we'll have Danielle open us with an
opening prayer. Father God, we adore you and praise you. We give you our hearts, our mouths, our minds,
that anything that we say or do has a positive effect on anybody else that encourages them to
let them know that the God that we serve is alive. He is not dead. He's reachable, touchable, lovable.
He gives you a great big hug when you need it. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much.
Thank you for being with us and for the prayer. And where would you like to start it?
I don't even know where it would start. Five years ago, I was mowing the lawn and I went to go for some
breeze and I stopped in the middle of it and I went to go in the house and my husband was right
behind me and I looked at him as all stars. And so I went back into the house and had him and my
daughter pretty much carry me. I ended up vomiting on myself. So since it's a learning lesson also
that if you are a woman or a man and you become short of breath and see stars and vomit go to
the hospital, I had a heart attack and didn't know it. I felt fine 15 minutes later, went back
outside and mowed the lawn. A week later, I was working as a nurse in a pediatric office. When
we had to go to another office for a meeting, I went to go grab my lunch and I went to go sit down
and at the time I was diabetic and I started to see stars again. Ended up on the floor. They all
thought it was my diabetes or shoving all these carbohydrates in me. I was like, okay, stop. This
isn't what it is. I'll be fine. I'm just tired. It went away 15 minutes later. I had my co-worker
take my car and drive it back. She ended up getting to work on time, but I walked slow. I was very
heavy set, 330 pounds. And as I was walking in, I went to collapse and my head nurse on the floor
was like, yeah, no, something's not right. I'm like, just give me a minute. I'll be fine. And she's
like, no, something's not right. Called my husband. We went to a hospital. They're like, you're fine.
Now there's something wrong. While we did an EKG, we did all this stuff. Your heart's fine. They
went to send me home. And he goes, the only thing is you have is your heart murmur. And I looked at
him and it was like, I don't have a heart. He goes, just you do. I'm like, no, I don't. He's like, yeah,
you do. And I'm like, no, I don't. So they sent me to a bigger hospital down in Mainpitsburg. And
they did a bunch of tests. And they found out that I have, you're supposed to have four aortic valves.
I was born with three. Evidently, it's supposed to be passed down from generation to generation.
When they checked, one had completely closed with stenosis. One started to close. And the other
one was showing signs. They didn't let me leave the hospital. They're like, I don't know how you're
walking. I don't know how you're talking. And I don't know how you're laughing. Because, you know,
when you laugh, you tend to get your stuff all up more. Laughing can actually help heal the body.
Yes. It's the way the Lord is also our strength. So that's why you see people laughing all the time.
Anywho, they started to run all these tests. They wanted to open heart surgery on me. And I'm like,
okay, I looked at my husband. And then another time I will tell you why he looked at me and couldn't
believe we were going through something else. But anyways, they did run these tests. They do a
panorama of your face to make sure you have no infections or loose teeth, because they have to
stop your heart. They put you in a heart bypass. They have to put all kind of tubing in you. And
they did a panorama and found out on my right side of the jaw was infected. I didn't feel anything.
I was like, okay, and he goes, you have a UTI. So the heart doctor stopped and he sat down on the
floor in the room. And he was like, I don't understand how you could be sitting there talking
with all this going on. It goes, if I didn't look on these test results, I would say you're
perfectly fine. I said, I am, he goes, no, you're not. And I'm like, okay. So to make a very long
story short, 30 days later of being in the hospital, I had open heart surgery. I came out fine to have
a beautiful scar to prove it. One day when it's still not tender, because it's still tender to
this day, I will have something that God gives me to remind me that he saved me from this,
because I should not be standing here. We go home, I start to heal up, I start to get back to
driving. And I made my husband dinner, went in to go in my bed and for something. And I passed out,
and woke up with my right arm, not being able to move that well and tingles. I couldn't find my
husband. You start to panic, even though this is what I do for a living. And I go to get in my car
to drive. I don't know, wasn't getting oxygen to the brain. I was having a stroke. Wow. The medicine
that they give you for your heart and everything was not regulating right in my body. And I had to
go to the hospital to deal with the stroke. As they checked me for the stroke, they diagnosed me
with MS also. Go home, try to reprogram my brain like, okay, this makes sense. All the stuff that
was I was doing, dropping things, tripping over my own feet, just the weirdest things that you
tell the doctors and they go, okay, you're heavy said, you're diabetic. They look at me like I'm
nuts. And I'm like, there is a reason. Okay. And then I start crying. And then I don't know if you,
how music wise you are. I don't know what to call it. But there is a song. And it's very old. And
it's very gospel. Southern is somebody prayed for me. They got down on my knees. And they go
through people like your mom. God, in high school, I was in a lot of trouble. Bless me with a spiritual
mom, because my mom was not able to do what she needed to do for me. And as soon as I graduated,
high school, I moved in with her. And it taught me what a family was. It taught me who God was. It
taught me how I should be praying and what you should be doing. But what happens when you leave
the nests and you fall away from the things that you do and you don't go to church and you don't
read your word, you tend to distance yourself. And I feel that because my mother prayed for me,
not the only reason, but because he has taken me and has flipped me and turned me in this tornado
of a spiritual whirlwind to bring me back to where I was and to tell other people that he still is
here. He still heals. He still hears you. He hasn't gone anywhere. He will never leave you nor forsake
you. He will stand by you. But you have to reach out and let him in. If you keep up a wall and you
block and you're like, I'll see you in a minute. I have to get right first. Are you like Jesus in
the front room, the sitting room? It's like, no, you go to church to learn all these things and to
get food for thought and feed your spirit. And my thing is, even when I wasn't going to church and
doing what I was, my music still kept my spirit in there because I wouldn't listen to anything else
except Kirk Franklin and some of the older gospel that I found out, Juanita Bynum and all these
people that you start listening, it gets in your spirit. You don't realize that the stuff that is
around you makes a difference in your spirit, whether you know what's going on or you're just
surrounding yourself. Like you put yourself in a room with all these people that are doing all
this other kind of stuff and speaking anything but God, partying, doing everything, that starts to
seep, you're starting to get their spirits with your spirits and it doesn't mix. And so my kids
will tell you that their memory of me when they hear Kirk Franklin is Saturday mornings, I would
put on Kirk Franklin and dance while you clean. Old fashioned, my grandmother made me clean when
I was on Saturdays. We always had on music and that's what I did. And after I got out and I didn't
want to watch TV at the hospital, I would have all this stuff going on. I would still listen to my
music while I ended up having another stroke. And the doctor looked at me and he was like,
something's got to change. And I'm like, I agree with you. Where do we go? And he goes, I can't
tell you. I don't know where to go. So I prayed. And I ended up a couple years later, deciding to
get the gastric bypass. I needed to lose the weight. I needed to reverse the damage that I did to my
body and my spirit. We damage our own cells sometimes. And so I wanted to get the gastric
bypass. They had a little trouble doing it. I went home, no, everything was fine. I had a hard time
walking, didn't think anything of it. I had no energy, you still don't think anything of it. I was
sleeping a lot, still didn't think anything of it because you're healing. My doctor called me,
she goes, you never want to go get your blood work. I don't feel like leaving the house. She goes,
that's not you. Go get your blood work. Go to get my blood work. My hemoglobin was not there.
They're like, you need to go to the hospital now. And I'm like, I'm not going to because you either
go or I call 911 and I'm going to send somebody there or I'm coming myself. And I'm like, fine,
whatever, I'll go. So I go and at first they do a little blood work and I call you here,
these nurses coming in and these pints of blood going up. I need blood transfusions. I needed
like three of them. I think they ended up giving me. So they kept me overnight to do this, to make
sure I was okay, to make sure everything was getting leveled off and I would have to go get
more blood work like I used to do every week. And I'm like, okay, my husband's like, you ready to
go home? I'm like, man, am I ever? And he's starting laughing. And nurses came in and I got my clothes
on never left the bed, just was able to get my clothes on and my pants on and he helped me put
on my shoes for me because I still couldn't bend right. He's like, you okay, my gas, I put my two
feet on the ground and go to lift up off the bed and just face planted completely. And I was like,
oh, that hurt. I'm like, that really hurts. And he goes, what, you know, what's going on? I'm like,
I have no clue. And he goes, get up and I, my legs were like, jello. It's like, I didn't even have
legs. So all these guys came to pick me up. I just had the gastric back class. I've lost maybe 15
pounds at that. And they couldn't be had a hard time lifting me up. And when they did, they lifted
me up. I'm like, okay, I could feel my feet. I can feel the touch of the ground. I went flat back
again, right on the floor. Put me back in bed and my husband looked to me goes, I guess you're not
leaving. I said, hmm, I guess not. All these doctors come in and you know, something like that
happens, the one blames the other one and so forth and so forth. And I found like my neurologist
and he goes, that's not MS. And he walks out and comes back in and goes, no, that's your MS. And I'm
like, okay, what do we do about it? And he was like, you just got away till it ends. We got to put
you on steroids. Okay, put me on steroids. I ended up being in the hospital for a total of
four months, three months. And then a nursing home for another three learning how to walk again.
Physical rehab, which was not fun. You know, I just in your you don't realize when you're not
able to walk and how much you don't use your legs, how much muscle and how fast it can go.
Not only that, but I wasn't drinking as much. I was eating. I was just doing protein shakes. And
they say, yeah, that's good for you. Your muscles still need to move and the blood that pumped
through them. And so I gave them more time at first. And then I was only able to walk maybe 30
steps. And I would feel myself wobble and go backwards. So my mother had come up, my spiritual
mother had come up to be with me and to encourage me into pray over me. And of course, she came up
with a prayer blanket that is still on my headboard, right where I can touch it and feel it and have
it with me. Not because of her per se, because the anointing that they had prayed over that blanket,
it touched me. It really I don't even know the proper words to say, but there was something there,
the Holy Spirit, you know, just ended up really touching me. So every morning I would wake up
and I'd be like, okay, what do you do? I'm in the hospital. I don't have a Bible with me.
But heck, we got cell phones now. It's not the old days. I can look up scriptures. What do you do
when you look up scriptures? People start popping up, you know, like Jesse DeClanus, love, recommend,
completely illicit to. He's a funny guy. And all these people start popping up broad,
parsley, you know, I'm in Priscilla. I really think that TD Jakes and his daughter, and I started
listening to the stuff and then I started putting music back on. And I'm like, okay, God, please
forgive me. I know you're there and I don't know why I keep putting you to the side. So let's start
again. Let's put my faith where it should belong. Let's start feeding myself the Word of God. You
know, whether I'm reading it, or I'm listening to it, or I'm watching it, that's all I did. My best
friend came, she would come play games with me. She would pray with me. She brought me plants.
They help. They really do. And slowly, I started to get back. For a while, I couldn't hold even
my cell phone. I couldn't, my hands would jerk, they wouldn't work right. I couldn't talk right.
Stereoids were messing you up, taking my sugar sky high. And I'm like, no, I'm not accepting this.
And I start praying the Word of God over and over and over. And when I didn't
and couldn't pray and didn't know what to pray, I just start talking. I was like, okay, God,
this is me. Help me. Take me where I need to go. Help me do the things I need to do. And as I did
that and lowered me and let him fill me up, the more I was able to do. And during the time I was in
the nursing home learning that I found out I hadn't had any contact with my biological mother in
three, four years, drug addict. She just, I don't know, it wasn't a good relationship. She just lost
her way. But anyways, I found out and the Holy Spirit made me look up her name, what's she doing,
you know, with she online, I blocked her on Facebook and everything. My kids did so nobody saw.
And I found her death certificate online. And I found out that the year before,
on my birthday, she passed away. And down I went, I'm like, you know, I start getting mad,
start getting angry. And then I look outside and there was a deer there. And it was eating.
And then there was another deer. And then there was a butterfly. And then there was a chipmunk.
And he says in the word, who were you? I feed all these things and make all these things
alive. Who are you to say anything different? Who were you to talk to yourself like? He like put me
in my place. You're not allowed to do that. He's a real good at that. Slop in the face. He's like,
you don't talk to her that way. You don't be like that to her. You did what you had to do. There was
a reason why you did it. Whether it be right or wrong, it's overdone in the past. Why we decide
to turn around and look to see? I have not the inkling why we do that. We don't like what's in
the past. We don't like the taste of it, the smell of it. The feel of it. It shows us how far we've
come though. Is that there is the blessing in that part. Right. But there's also danger in it. And
that's what Lot's wife found out. Because she was looking back on the security that she knew,
the familiarity of what she had. I don't think she was looking back and thinking, man, I really
am missing that sinful city. But she was looking back, missing the life she was living and a
scared to move on to the life that God had prepared for her. And I think that's the issue that Lot's
wife faced in that one. And it is good. I think it's good to measure when you feel that you're
stopped, when you feel that you're stagnant, when you feel that you're just come up to a wall to
look back to where you started. Right. Because that is a wonderful place to gauge that your walk is
walking. That you are moving, that you're making progress, that you're not just at a standstill.
When you look back and you don't even recognize a person behind you, that is a good place to me.
Ever said that so right. It's funny. The nursing home I was at was the same one my husband's
mother was at. So I knew some of the staff and some of the staff saw my name and would come up
and they're like, are you Ruth's daughter? Is it daughter-in-law? I don't want to use to come in
with her and pray with her. I had forgotten all about that. She was a different faith than I was,
but it was still a Christian faith. It may not have been, I don't believe in politics and religion.
That's why I like being non-denominational. I hate the politics. We agree too. We think it's silly.
It is really silly and that's what you have, the Protestants and the Catholics and the Lutherans
and Methods mixed my head spin. To me, it's in order for any specific religious organization
to claim that they are greater in the eyes of God. When John and his brother were arguing about who
was going to sit at the right hand of Jesus and they're bringing the tip like, who's going to be
right here? Is it me or him? Who's going to be left to be right? He's like, one of you idiots,
even understand what this means. Of course, he was kinder about it than my brief synopsis there.
Jesus, I don't believe ever. He might have. He used fool a few times and he called Peter Satan
at one point. We call him to get behind him when he's being silly. It's important for us to realize
that in order for us to move forward, we have to acknowledge that these different religious things
are valid as long as they hold Jesus as the focal point. As long as they hold the truth about Jesus,
the core of the gospel, that we are sinners and need of a Savior. God provided that Savior through
his son Jesus and through his life, we have an example through his death, we have life and through
his rebirth, we have the Holy Spirit to guide us then on. I don't care what other background you have,
as long as you believe in that. The rest of it is arguing about what part of the body of Christ
you are. That is the silliest thing over the eyes of Christ, over the mouth of Christ, over the,
like, I could be the sweat gland of Christ. Let's do this. Like, I want to help in any way I can,
right? Like, so you saved me, Jesus. And for me to give you anything less than my life means that
I didn't really appreciate what you saved. Like, this is yours. And if you want me to be the hangnail
of the body of Christ, to give people like, oh, that's uncomfortable, and pay attention to what
you want to say, then I'll do that. If you want me to be the feet and walk over, I'll be happy to
do that too. Whatever you want me to do, I'd like to think that I'm happy for it. But, you know, we
all, some of us, we were like, oh, Jesus, I don't know about that. Maybe you don't know me as well as you think you do.
Which is like the silly conversations. I think we all go through that. Absolutely. It's the silliest
thing in the world. Like, not only did I make you, but I know what tomorrow is for you and you don't.
So when I'm asking you to do this, you should do it instead of hurt you. That's it. That's definitely
it. I was blessed enough not only to have, we'll go back to that song to a praying mother. But I had a
husband that just stuck there. He was there every single day after work. And then went home, went to
bed, went to work, came back again. He drove all the way into Pittsburgh when I was in the hospital
every day. Didn't miss a day. Maybe once or twice I got the grass. He never left my side.
And that gives a person strength too. So when I came back home and got my life together and by
the way, I walked out of that nursing home. They only come and get you once a day for 20 minutes,
a half hour. I would wheel myself down there and I would say, are you busy in there? Can I
use the weights? Can I do this? Can I do that? Because even though he was healing me, I still
had to do my part. I can't just say, go ahead. Well, that's a lie. I could, but that doesn't give you
the strength that you need to carry from dead today. You don't have a testimony unless you go through
a test and you're going to always go through a test. So you have a testimony. You have to grow.
Even in life, you have to grow. Stagnant water stinks. It attracts blood-sucking mosquitoes.
You have to grow. Stay a baby in Christ. You'll be treated like a baby in Christ.
I'm just wondering why you're not growing or doing things or like this. I would have never
expected her to say that to me and normally I would have looked at her and go, no, wrong one.
I don't think I gave myself three seconds to even think about it. It was like the Holy Spirit
was like, yes. Then I looked at myself in like retrospect, like, really? As much as I can talk
like you and everything, it's, I shy away from it. I don't know. That's the part of me in my brain
getting into my thoughts in my head rather than letting him shine through like this.
Yeah. And yet here you are. Yeah, here I am.
Here you are letting him shine through that you in your discomfort chose to go through with what
you feel in your heart. He asked you to do what Shelley feels in her heart. He asked her to ask
you to do. Right? And so both of you listened to the Father and now we're here today because of it.
Right? On her other half. So whatever she does, I'm vested. Right? Your husband the same way. Clearly.
Clearly. So God doesn't have to tell me to get somebody on the podcast. I mean, he can.
I welcome it, but I don't shy away from anybody that she is felt prompted like,
okay, this that's who's next in or hate. That's that's it. And she started the podcast because
she's a better listener. Right? And God knows me. He knows what he's playing with. He made me.
Of course, he knows what he's doing. And so he knew he was going to have this person for me. So
he said, I'm going to have you do this, but I want to use her to get you off your butt.
That's what he did. That's true. My husband had PTSD from church.
Ex-wife and him went to church and he sat on the board and they would argue, fight somebody,
yell at another person because they weren't breaking their Bible. And then they were using
the church Bible. It's just silly stuff. And he was like, I don't want any a part of that. And I'm
like, okay, well, her other grandmother was taken her to church and she was having a fit. She didn't
like it. There's nothing wrong with that church. It was just a prop wasn't a proper fit for her.
She would come here with me when we started to come and she would be crying when I first dropped
her off. And I said, I am upstairs. I will be right back. And all of a sudden, Pastor Pete came
in and he learned her name, told her how pretty she was, gave her a hug, met my husband, introduced
himself, learned Jim's name, Miss Eileen did the same thing. And then all of a sudden, this amazing
flowerpot came where all the broken dirt and roots I had everywhere is now being planted.
We all have different roots at different places. And, you know, you can either let it grow wild and
out of hand. And then they can wither and die because it's not in the right environment.
Or all of a sudden when you're obedient, it may take a little bit. But it starts to break off that
old dirt and starts to get those roots grounded. And it takes a little bit for plants to be grounded.
Some of them, you know, the roots may wither and die away, but those are the ones you don't want
anyways. That's the stuff you don't want. And then I started teaching her the scripture I taught
my kids, God is not giving you a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and the best of yet, sound mind.
And I can't tell you how many times a day that I repeat that scripture to myself because in
synopsis, that's everything we need. You know, and then you start bringing little scriptures in
like the joy of the Lord is my strength. Well, what brings you joy? What do you like doing?
You know, that's glorified God. Joy of the Lord, not the joy of Danielle.
That's very important because you can get lost in the joy of Danielle.
Oh, oh, without a doubt. And there's people that have joined the Lord to the gifts that
He's given them to the point where they start distancing themselves and they start taking
the joy in themselves and pride in the gift that God has given them instead of using it
the way they're supposed to. Because we are created spiritually. We are created perfectly,
and we chose imperfection, right? We chose to not heed the words of the Father because we thought
He was holding something from us. We thought somehow this being that never lied to us,
that gave us the wisdom of Himself because He walked with us in the garden every night,
that we chose to believe that He was hiding something from us and we could be just as
good as equals Him when we were as equals to Him when He created us. Like, He was like,
this is what I want for you. And somehow, we're sent to Him. People, we still do it today, right?
The Old Testament, we see the story of how the Hebrews would fail and then it would be punished
in some way for 40 years and then God would rescue them and then they would have a period of so long
before they'd fail and then they would have 40 years of punishment and it was a cycle. But I
look at this as like just a macro version of our lives, right? Because I'll do something and I'll
feel bad about it and then I'll realize that God loves me. He's forgiven me through the blood of
Jesus and then I'll feel good about myself and Him and I will be walking in perfect step and then
I'll do something stupid again. And I feel like I am the nation of Israel, all in one as a person.
And this is why the Bible is a living word to me because I follow suit with the Israeli people,
with the Hebrews at the time, all perfectly. And His goodness is not based on mine, thankfully.
His goodness is not based on my faith. His goodness is not based on my ability to care for
another person. He is not limited by me. He's not limited by you. He's not limited by any of us.
And I praise God for God that isn't limited by my imagination. And He's given me a really good one.
Me and you both. But I feel like you're right that I don't normally like open up to strangers. I had
just literally met her in Tiffany. Oh yeah, she's real strange too. I don't know why you would have
done that. I thought, hey, you married her. I didn't say I was exiled carnival. So the red flags are
fit for him, you know. I'm kidding. She knows you don't red flag. She's a wonderful person.
Well, you like amusement. I do. I do. I do. I do like amusement. I don't get a lot from her though.
She's very strict. She's hard on me. That's a good thing. I mean, I feel safe at home.
But I think, yeah, he, I just went through the five years that just literally took everything
that I had built around me to feel safe, but it was so, so wrong and stripped it away from me.
Why? Just for me. I mean, I am that special. But it's not just for me. It's anybody out there
that's struggling with their minds. Because your mind, you got to renew your mind every day, every
minute you get a chance. That's why music is really good for me. It keeps my mind where it
should be. You're not wondering like a fool. It's just so hard. If you can't see what's happening
and knowing why it's happening. When you're in it, it's like, what is going on? Well, there's,
there's definitely a purpose to it. I remember a few years back, it could be longer than a few years,
but there was a pastor by the name of Marcus Rogers. And I don't even know if he was a pastor
at the time he made this or he was in a way of building a church, but he had a YouTube video
and he had a trash bag and he said, the enemy is always trying to get in. And wherever there's a
hole that posts on the crash bag, and he would just, he would like, he would exploit that hole and he
would pick tear big chunks out of it and trash would fall out and God is trying to mend these
holes so the enemy doesn't have a foothold. But we are the ones that poke the holes in a bag to give
the enemy license to tear open a bigger wound that we're hemorrhaging from all this garbage in
our life that is spilling into other people's lives. And I don't know if he phrased exactly this,
how I'm paraphrasing it, but it's, he's worth the watch if you ever run into Marcus Rogers,
he's a good cat. Jesus clearly loves him and has an anointing on him. And so you mentioned that you
had MS, you had valve issues, you had three fourths of your valves were intact, but not working even
well. And you had a number of other complications. Where are you not now in that? Like, do you still
have MS? Oh, I still have MS. It's a remission. Every once in a while, the devil comes knocking.
I'm not too long ago, I fell out of bed. I went to get up to go use the restroom and one foot
want the one way and the other foot went under the bed. When in the hospital, because I thought I
broke my ankle. 24 hours later, my ankle was fine. My knee was swollen and hurt and I couldn't walk.
I had to get my walker back out. We had to buy a $50,000 cars because I have a scooter in the back
of my car and I have a walker. And I talked to him about taking that stuff out and I ended up
on the floor in the bedroom and I'm like, okay, discernment here, which one is this? Is it keep
it in there because God wants you to make sure you're safe or the devil playing tricks with you?
You've got to pray and you've got to fast and you've got to figure it out. But Pastor had a
ceremony with renewing our vows and we went up for that. And I had my walker because at the
two nights prior, I was just in a hospital and Pastor Pete looked at me and I explained and
he was like, are you going to be there? And I'm like, I'm going to be there. And he was like, okay.
And we went and all three of our daughters, which was another miracle who had been fighting,
all showed up together and talked with each other and was just walls were being broken down.
And I refused to take my 10 year vows walking with a walker, refused it. I set the walker aside
and prayed as I walked up to the front of the church, but did it. And cute little granddaughter
came up afterwards and she was like, Mimi, what are you doing? And brought my walker to me. I was
like, God, I'm loving it. Five years old. She's amazing. She's just has a, just a sweet and genuine
heart and her and Pastor Pete have a just acutus relationship. She'll come up from
children's church and she'll spot them and he'll spot her and he's like, come on, baby.
And she flies to him and he lifts her up. It's like that dirty dancing move, you know, when they
lift up. I'm like, he takes her on a church and everything. I'm like, okay, I'll just sit here
and wait. But I want that. You know, seeing that I want that. Unfortunately, my girls didn't get that
and get that kind of relationship. I took them out of this church and sell back when I was trying to
get it, not single parent type situation. So I cover all bases, like being a single parent,
having health issues. My MS tries to act up. I can't go on steroids anymore. They
cause cataracts. On this past month, I've had to cataract surgery to remove them.
I still have my heart and then I'm sure you might hear a tick, tick, tick door in this whole thing.
I still have my heart. I go for my checkups and everything. But I thank God and my girls don't
have it. She's the next one to be tested. It's they had to wait for her to get a certain age.
So for them not to have it is praise God and then both got checked for MS because they're 24 and 25.
Almost like it ended a generational curse. That's where I was just getting to. That is so important.
See why she keeps her year round. That it's so important. And it's so important. If you don't
know what to say to God, like we talked earlier, I'm not much of an open prayer. It's when all my
heart went on my mind and I'm done for that second. If I need to talk to him, he's there two minutes
later for people to be encouraged and know that there is a God. There is a God that loves you,
that wants you, that will provide for you, that will heal you, will do anything he can for you
as long as you're yourself to him. Right. That's literally the requirement. He doesn't want you
to kill anybody. He doesn't want to save anybody. He doesn't want you to donate to the orphanages
or the widows. He quite literally just wants your heart and everything else that's good and loving
flows from the heart that he is now occupying. That is tremendous. And I couldn't agree any more
from that statement. That is perfect. If I can get through these past five years, let alone
the other stuff that has happened in my life, anybody can. Anybody can. I've had an
acritizing fasciitis. Oh, yes, not good. That it was really not good. I should have died that
five operations in 10 days. She doesn't know this stuff. I'm an EMT, so I understood a lot of
terminology you're using. And so what happens later is I'll break it down to where, unless it's
something really pertinent for that, I'll break it down now. Well, necrotizing fasciitis is a flesh
eating bacteria. And so my private parts from sweating and working in a garden and stuff,
the follicle got inflamed and infected and started to eat my flesh away. And I am the type of person
and you'd probably know what I mean is working in a medical field. I'll be fine. I want to
sysgrowing or a boil or, oh, I have a little bit of a fever. I'll just take some Tylenol,
not a big deal. Go to work. And if he explains why you didn't go to the hospital when you had your
heart attack, you explained a lot. And I knew better. I knew better. I did. Looking back, I was like,
you fool. What is wrong with you? I hear nurses and doctors make the worst patients. Yes. Yes,
because we put everything off or, well, as the doctor or nurse that we know, nurse practitioner,
to write a prescription for us, check us out real quick. I told them what I happened at work and I
came back and told them about my valve and they were like, okay. I said, I also got diagnosed with
MS and Dr. Wendy Bechtine said, I knew it because I would stumble, fall, or you'd see me walking and
tilt to the wall. Did you see anybody hand him money like they had a bet going on?
Not in front of me. They might have, but not in front of me. No. I am on disability though.
So I think it's to one, get closer to God, to be able to do stuff like this and
relearn who I am and him and be able to help people like my daughters. My daughter became
a single mother. So we help with Paisley and we take her a couple of days of the week,
especially on Sundays because she gets mad if we don't end up keeping her three, four days.
We've had her for over a week this summer because we've been doing things every day.
Tomorrow we're going to Kennywood. So first time at Kennywood for her. And my heart's good enough
to go on the roller coasters. Well, but I want people to know it doesn't matter where they are at,
what religion, because God didn't create religions, man created religion. God wants that
relationship. That's, it's a relationship and he'll do anything to get your attention, even walk
off silently and not say a word. Let you hit rock bottom. And a famous pastor, and I don't know his
name, said sometimes you had to hit the bottom just to look up. But guess what? You're looking up.
Well, he's the rock at the bottom. He's also the walls and he's the ceiling and
everything. Pretty much everything you need him to be. Everything else. Again, I hate to revert
back to songs, but there's an old song again that for anybody that's out there, that there is a man
that took his son and his grandson fishing and they started to drown. The little boy started to drown
and he threw the rope out to him and started to wheel him in with the rope. But the rope
started to break and he said, I got chills, don't know my arms. Just reach beyond the break and
just hold on. A change is coming. That's what we need to do. Just reach beyond that little break.
Hold on. There's a change coming. You're looking up. You're going to get saved by him.
Keep yourself worded in him. Also keeps things away from you.
Yes, indeed.
Thank you so much for coming on and sharing this part of your story with us, Danielle.
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