Skyfall 2024: Be Sober & Vigilant by Christine Carr

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   well you know at Skyfall we usually have a very diverse subject matter so we're going to have something we've never had before I think y'all are going to be a little uh some people may be a little ill some people may like it but I think it's an important truth that needs to come forth uh I just now met Christine Carr but my wife and daughter went to the uh Alabama legislative days that they have for the Alabama Republican women uh I guess it was a couple of years ago or what was it 23 and they heard uh Christine speak on this subject and it was just awesome and so uh we invited her here and we want to hear this topic and I'm not going to I'm not going to give it away I'm going to let her dig into it but here's what I say about everything listen take in take in the information and then check for yourself do your own research and as the Berean to figure out if those things are so right so that's what we do about everything you supposed to check me check Pastor Troy you don't just go hey Pastor Dean said it so we're going with it don't do that you better know it's the truth and you know that's why sometimes I even get information I get information from good sources and I still double check sometimes triple check to make sure and even then I've had to go back and go uh that was not right I had have to uh retract that and correct that and if I get something wrong publicly I correct it publicly so um anyway I know we still got a few coming in but Christine if you would come on up and we'll turn it over to you um are we using this are y'all using this computer up here or you just going to be clicking and looking at the screen I don't know clicking and licking okay there what you say I love it I think I'm going to yes hold a microphone and use the clicker all at the same time multi-talented perhaps so um I think I think it's perfect um by by profession I'm a nurse anesthesiologist and so a lot of people say well you know you're the one that puts people to sleep and I say well more importantly I'm the one that wakes them up you know it's what I call job security right can't be one and done and so here we are right after lunch having some delicious food and it's the afternoon and you're going to be a little a little snoozy so I I hope it's just not me being able to put you to sleep so we'll hopefully stay awake and talk about this interesting subject so um in addition to in my professional life uh working in high stress trauma anesthesia pain management surgery intensive care units all of those things there's a lot of things in my life that led me up probably to this point this was not anything on my radar

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   that I ever expected to discuss or to become an expert on uh but that is usually the way God handles Our Lives the unexpected right and uh I actually grew up in Air Force brat moved around a lot but I grew up in a period of time you know in those wonderful rocking 80s and at my my time of life when I was extreme extremely impressionable in this like 8 n and 10 years of age you know it's the highlight of the Reagan Era Reagan running for uh reelection my dad is in the Air Force in a division called the Strategic Air Command which is the division that's always on alert vigilance uh ready for World War I and that was a kind of life that experience that I had church was kind of in and out but I knew at a very young age that I loved my country hated communism loved freedom and I knew actually as a very young girl my earliest memories that I loved Jesus and I can't remember any how this specifically came but I still remember at the age of between two and three um having visions of Jesus on a white horse coming down out of the sky I did not read the book of Revelation till I was 15 put two together so I just knew and fiercely loved him and fiercely knew that Satan was my enemy went through different types of churches it wasn't really regular I didn't really understand what it meant to become a Christian until a little bit later but when I was nine I knew what it meant to become a Republican and one of the things you know just the order sometimes of things so one of the most uh piercing things to me was that that time I because it was a re-election era and these things are being talked about um around the dinner table and I pick up on things in the news I was a precocious reader anyway and so I started to learn about abortion and I'm telling you when you're 9 years old and you learn about abortion and what that means that is emotionally traumatic uh it it it it just floored me I could not understand I could not understand it and so I knew then okay so in addition to Communism and taxes and and all the other things that was something that pierced me deeply backing up a little bit as a young child too when I I was an early early reader and one of the first books I remember reading was the story about the king with no clothes do you remember that story right and I remember thinking to myself I was around three and a half half to four reading that story I I just

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   couldn't believe that the crowd would follow this nonsense because I believe that adults knew what they were doing right we we go through this transition at some point in time where we realize oh the adults didn't really know they didn't understand so I remember as a young child not only I knew I loved Jesus hated Satan I knew that I wanted to grow up and be like that little boy in that story that I always wanted to be the person that could recognize when the crowd was going after Folly and that I would also have the courage to speak up so then we fast forward and I just told you about my political indoctrination as as a kid and the the things that made sense as a kid they still make sense today right and then it wasn't until I was 14 and I went through a period of time in those middle school years where I was in a bit of rebellion in my heart and I drifted away from God but I was curious about spirituality related stuff and it started to become evident to me that there there is a world out there and that there is real darkness so I started to get hungry again and started to seek and start reading my Bible and reading devotionals and start going to church again with friends and it was one night in my room when I was 14 and I read out of Romans chapter 10 but what saith it the word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart that is the word of faith which we preach that if Thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and Shall Believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead Thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation I was floored I said to myself is it really that simple oh no problem because remember I'm an Air Force Brad I'm in a military I've by this time learned how to shoot M16s and throw concussion grenades and went on Survival exercises with my dad that was normal stuff I understood the chain of command and I understood that when the command says it they mean it and you obey and I knew I love Jesus I knew he was right I knew the Bible was a gift to Mankind and finally read those words and it was the most amazing thing I got out of my bed got on my knees I didn't even know what sins to confess I just knew I needed him and I was broken and lost without him and thank God and His graciousness I'm sure you've experienced this over time he starts to show you the things you give up right the things that you give back to him the things you don't do anymore because once you've met Christ you are never the same again

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   right never the same so from that moment on the nightmares that I had they were gone the feeling of there's something missing there's something missing there's something missing that was gone I had moments where sometimes I couldn't sleep and I would wake up and I saw the figure of a man at the edge of my bed that was gone whatever evil was chasing me was kicked out and I was living under the promise we find in Psalm 23 surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life and brother and sister I tell you I I look at that as a personification of the Lord you are being yes we know the devil is like a roaring lion seeking who he may devour but you're being tracked by goodness and mercy every single day of your life don't forget that okay even though you may feel a Darkness coming after you he is coming after you more so now being a teenager and wondering what am I going to do with my life and I knew all these this different things I knew I was the kind of person that does not want to see the vulnerable harmed or killed very passionate about it I knew that I will not be a coward and that if I see that there's something wrong I will speak out about it um and I knew I wanted to give my life to serving people so at first that was in the world of medicine and after my brother passed away when I was 16 and I saw the way the nurses cared for him and cared for his family I knew I had to be a nurse first I just had to do it because I was I just fell in love with how they gave everything to their patients and so I went into nursing became an RN at 19 I went through a lot of schooling really fast went to the Intensive Care Unit and uh then went into my anesthesia specialty and I've been doing that ever since and this was an area that I did not expect to be into because my eldest son was very sick from A postconcussion syndrome in the year 2021 we were in New Orleans getting him specialty therapy and it saved his life it was amazing hyperbaric oxygen therapy was fantastic so I'm coming back to the Birmingham area so excited I wasn't paying attention to anything going on in Alabama State politics at that period of time time if you remember 2021 was really bad we had a change over in the white house we had a injection that was being starting to be forced onto people and I was trying to navigate through all of that working in the hospital um and I was just mostly paying attention to National issues but then I came home and that's when I found out that um for some reason uh the um Alabama State Legislature then the senate had already passed this medical loal marijuana legislation I was shocked I was disappointed I had followed enough of

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