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Everyone, I'm back. My name is Tonya Lee Carey and I'm so excited to share with you today's message of honoring thy father and thy mother. But before I get started, everyone who subscribed, thank you for returning back. And if you haven't subscribed, please do and like the video and I would greatly appreciate it if you would give a comment or if you have a question or just express what you feel about what you heard today. I want to open up a quote by Billy Graham and he said that if children are allowed to disrespect their parents, then they truly do not respect anyone else. I will go on to say they definitely don't respect themselves. I am my father's daughter. This message today is for sons and daughters and specifically for those who's raised without their father or mother in their life and or their father and mother was in their life but we don't feel or we don't believe they did enough as a parent. I am my father's daughter. I can speak on this because I am not just talking theory. I am walking the talk, beloved. My father was not in my life growing up and my mother in and out. It's just what it was, basically raised by my grandmother. But love covers, love protects, and I love my father and my mother to this day. My father's been gone about 15, 16 years. 2005, he passed away. I had to raise money for his home going and I am now my mother's guardian, something I've always wanted to be close to my mom. I had to be her guardian to get that closeness and relationship that, wow, never give up on your parents. Honoring your mother and your father and in the word of God, it talks about father first and mother because it's just the order of the way it is, but it is the fifth commandment and five represents grace and favor and numbers is a big thing with God. And I want to ask you, have you received the lover of our souls, the father of the fatherless in your life? Because if you haven't, it will be hard to love someone with great respect and great esteem if they was not in your life growing up. What did they, what did they do for me? What I get, forget. They do for me, I do for them. That's the type of mentality we will have without the lover of our souls in our life. It's hard enough to love and honor and respect someone who wasn't there, who come back later in their lives. But with the lover of our souls in our life, and we recognize the love God gives to us, and we recognize his forgiveness that we don't deserve and his mercy every day and that grace, we recognize that, then it's easier to extend it to some parents that happen to be inside of us. I don't care how far you have risen. Your parents is with you. We can't run from them. You can say, I don't want to be like my mother, and you may end up like your mother. And when we can reconcile with that in our hearts, with the father of the fatherless, then we can be at peace to begin to honor them and to be able to love them and to be able to accept them just where we are at and to do what we can for them if they're still alive or look for them like I did for my father and my mother. I am forever grateful for the experience that I had with my dad before he left, to know that he really loved me all these years, and I didn't know it until on the other side. Honor your father and that mother. I believe it's the foundation for everything in our lives, who we are becoming. We are a sum total of our decisions. The life is not on the mountaintop, my brothers and my sister. Life, we are made in the valley. Our conviction, our character is made there. And with the father of the fatherless, we will have a conviction, a healthy conviction to do right by those who gave us life. I love you. There's nothing you can do about it. I am my father's daughter. Peace.