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EMBRACING PREFERENCES and NAVIGATING ideologies can lead to personal insights and the significance of finding the right community for individual growth in this week’s episode of Spiritual Perspectives. Preferences and how they show up in our lives A heartwarming story about a community coming together to support a waitress highlights the power of love and service. Embracing worldwide trade with other countries and India is highlighted in this week's sharing. The speakers emphasize the importance of knowing one's boundaries and the common ground that can be found in shared human experiences.

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Season 1 Episode 18 of "...Discerning News."hosted by Teresa Shantz, Author and Podcast Host,  Tom Shantz, "The Spiritual Businessman" along with Tiger Coll, D.D., President, Wayshowers College (SM).

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Spiritual Perspectives on Current Events
• 1:48 The Importance of Timing in Relationships and Trade
• 6:10 Resetting Relationships and Personal Clarity
• 17:35 Navigating Controversial Topics in Education
• 31:04 The Importance of Community and Self-Respect
• 33:14 Life Lessons and Opportunities for Growth
• 34:21 A Heartwarming Community Story
• 41:35 The Power of Love and Service
• 48:10 Finding Common Ground and Personal Boundaries

Transcript

TNT SpiritWorks (00:01)
No matter where we're at in the world, we get together to share with you the spiritual perspectives discerning news. So we've got Tiger Cole out in Vegas today. Hey, Tiger.

Tiger (00:10)
Stay there.

TNT SpiritWorks (00:11)
And I'm excited to be back together and sharing some of the interesting news of this week. You agree?

Tiger (00:19)
Yeah.

yeah, it's been great that we've been able to find the means to be able to regroup not only these stories, but

the feelings behind them and how to operate through them. Because I, you know, that whole energy of I'm in this world, but not of it. But I have to navigate through it in order to do what I've come to do. So I've really enjoyed this. I'm looking forward to this call.

TNT SpiritWorks (00:53)
Yeah, especially

because we just came off of Easter one, was a whole thing in itself, right? So this will be really nice to share a little bit of what we picked up this week. So why don't you kick it off, Tiger, with what's the main thing you wanted to kind of share this week about?

Tiger (01:08)
Yeah, the first story I was going to bring up, it's kind of ⁓ a relatively light story. It's actually not that a big story. It's the the vice president of the United States met with ⁓ the Indian prime minister and to, you know, continue to work things out with their security and communications and their trade and all that kind of thing. And that's that's kind of that first story that I wanted to bring up. It just it felt good.

good good

do. ⁓

teammates and alliances are working and that affects a lot of things as well. So that's the first story I wanted to bring up and to open I just wanted to talk about the energy of timing.

The first spiritual thing that stands out to me with this story is the energy of timing. And I need to be sensitive to my timing of things. I need to put my energy out, which a lot of what's been happening in this story, a lot of what's been happening is there's been this, you know, big stirring of these tariffs and this kind of thing. And now they're wanting to make deals with each other and so forth. But the energy kind of went out.

out first with the tariff thing. And then now we have delegates, in this case, the vice president of the United States going to India, and to regroup and also figure out where they begin and end with each other. So to me, that going back to the timing,

When I'm working with my fellow man, so to speak, ⁓ working with acquaintances, working with allies, working with people I haven't I don't have a real affinity for, I need to make sure that I'm tuned in to what my purpose is, what I'm going to be a part of moving forward. Right. So that's that thing about am I am I clear that I'm going to go to the grocery store, get my groceries that I need for the week?

and then come back. Now, whilst that sounds silly,

It's amazing as sensitive as I am, if I'm not clear of what I'm doing, it takes two, three seconds to just, OK, this is what I'm going to go do. I open myself to possible accidents in the car or I pick stuff up around people. I miss stuff that I meant to get at the grocery store or I'll just go do this. And all of a sudden, my timing gets blown. So there's a lot of stuff that can

happen if I put my energy out first of clear of what I want and need, then it's like my timing. I have this natural innate timing of where I need to be, when I need to be, why I need to be because I'm just fluid flowing now. I'm fluid and flowing with that energy. So the first thing in this story stands out to me is just being very loyal and sensitive to my own timing. Put my energy out there of what I

want. They say in the Good Book says that my job is to have clear with what I want in my heart and spirit and the universe will provide the steps.

And so if I have that clarity of what I'm doing, even if it's something as simple that I can take for granted as going to the grocery store or something on a large level in this case, you know, got the big trade deals between countries, but I need to have it clear and then I can move in at the right time to do what's needed. Have those positive conversations, know when to move out. Right. OK, I'm not doing what I need to do here. Let me move back.

move out. So that's the thing that stands out to me is that setting my energy and then moving with my timing. That's the first part of the story. How's that all? What do you think about that?

TNT SpiritWorks (05:30)
What do

feel like with that, Tom? You want to share next? Well, one of the words that came to me about the story was the reset. And I recently heard this ⁓ author, George Friedman, was on a Tucker Carlson episode, and he was talking about how there's going to be, you know, we're in the middle of a storm right now, but there's going to be, you know, peaceful times. And apparently this guy has been pretty good at predicting, you know,

what's going to happen and comparing and he really went through history and he was comparing like one of the examples was the second world war, how that was a big storm and then in the fifties things got all shifted in America, you know, like a whole new, uh, and in the past it's been something like, you know, the automobile came into play and that just shifted all of society. So, uh, without getting too much into it, this strikes me that, uh, when

with trade and with working with India, it's kind of like a big reset, you know, because they were a colony of the UK for a long time. And, you know, things have matured and there's billions of people there. I forget how many billions, but it's the second most populated, I think, country after China. Maybe they have more anyway, it's in the billions. And so, ⁓ you know, they're good guys to be partners with or to be able to

have relationships with and be of service. And it seems like the time has come. And the emphasis is shifting away from one place to another. So and I guess what comes up for me, energetically is those moments when things are either comfortable or uncomfortable, and can sometimes stimulate people within. So you know, and that goes down to especially, you know, heads of state, like, you know, if

you don't like Trump, you don't like Vance and then they're going around the world, you know, trying to get deals and people are stimulated and they're uncomfortable. But the thing that I want to really emphasize is that it's often in those uncomfortable or challenging or obstacle moments of our lives when great things happen. And sometimes it might not be right when it's occurring, but looking back at especially for myself, looking back at my life and going, wow, you know, when I had some of the biggest challenges,

some of the storms in your life, you might say, huh? Absolutely the storms and then, you know, things shifted and it was like exactly what needed to happen at that moment. And I think that's the other thing too, is the word trust is coming in really trusting in, you know, who's who's ⁓ on first base right now, who's up to home plate, who's going to be knocking it out and who's going to be running. ⁓ And, know, for the last four years, America had Biden. And so we did what we, you know, we had to do with that.

that, you know, scenario. And so here we are with another one. So it's really just for for the people listening out there is how comfortable or uncomfortable are you with change? Yep. And interesting. That's what that author said as well. Yeah, he said it's just that people are fighting it is just because they're uncomfortable with the change.

Tiger (08:46)
Yeah, I expanding on on some of that, you know, It. It doesn't matter to a degree. Who it is right. So if it was a different administration working with this, if if the administration in India was different, there's just there's there's comes a point where.

TNT SpiritWorks (09:00)
Right. ⁓

Tiger (09:14)
you have to the lines have to cut the lines that have to come together and meet. And we're in that auspicious time where all this has to be reset like you're bringing that point up, Tom. So one way or another, this is going to happen. That's number one. And but the other thing that stood out to me was ⁓ coming in fresh. need to come in fresh with my ⁓ friends and not so

TNT SpiritWorks (09:28)
Mm-hmm.

Right.

Tiger (09:44)
friendly friends. I need to be fresh in that. In other words, I need to be clear, clean and clear with who I am, where I begin and end, what I want and what I need. And without that clarity, what happens is I carry in all the old baggage and the other person I'm working with

will carry their baggage. And anytime I make an alliance, anytime I'm communicating with people, if I'm communicating with you, then true communication is where I come into you and you come into me. Right. That's true communication. We are passing through to each other these ideas and concepts and feelings and so forth. That's true communication. So if I want to make an alliance

alliance with someone or which is glorified way to say we're connecting right there right then and there

then I need to be crystal clear with who I am, where I begin and end and what I need to want. And while that sounds like a bit of like full, I got Tiger, you're to go meet somebody on the street. You got to go through this big checklist before you meet somebody on the street. Well, no, OK, I'm not talking about, you know, having to have some big head trip about it. I'm just saying being clear in yourself, right, with with where you begin and end, you know, and that way it makes it easier to work with people. If I

not cleaning clear. Right. And I go back to what I said earlier. I am going to bring all of the not so good habits mixed in with them into their and bad. They're good and not so good habits.

Right? So now we've got this big mosh pit of stuff happening when in reality I just came to work with you and you came to work with me on something pure and good. Right?

TNT SpiritWorks (11:45)
Well, I think that's

a challenge right there. Really, that's where I think the collective challenge is at this moment is working on yourself. Like that it comes back to me first. I mean, I have to do my inner work. have to do my find out my clarity, my direction in order before I can work with anybody else. And most people for those listening out there, most people recognize it.

Most people haven't done any inner work and it's maybe not even in this lifetime, right? There might be a couple lifetimes down the road, but recognizing and giving and honoring just where people are at because people are all over the place. Well, I'd say that, you know, there's, there's times where everyone's successful at something, you know, in terms of relationship or a situation they're in and it could be a simple one. It could be a complex one.

And in those days, in those times, they were probably very clear about where they began and end what they wanted. And they were just focused on the thing that purity of that, of that idea. So there's times where we get stimulated to bring our baggage in or not be clear, you know, probably based on those habits and attitudes we pick up from our folks in the first seven years. And some of them are good. And some of them are not so good, but that's

kind of the goal of life is to let go of those old habits that really don't fit anymore. And every once in a while, I like this idea of reset, you know, how you've got to get to a point in life, sometimes in your life where things just have to almost shock reset. And it's interesting because the fellow that I was listening to being interviewed today, he was saying the same thing, he was, you know, all this is going to happen anyway. It doesn't matter if it's this guy in office or that guy in office.

there'll be a different style in terms of who delivers what their policies are or maybe a different direction. But the reset is coming, which is something we've heard for many years. We're also feeling. Yeah. Although the good news is that that reset is going to lead to better times. And it was great to hear him talk about just think about in your own life. Or I can think about times where I had these resets.

that like you were saying earlier, Teresa didn't, didn't really, maybe I wasn't seeing how good this was at the time I was going through it, but later I went, I'm so glad that happened that way, you know, because here I am now. And it reminds me of something that you shared with me once Tiger where, you know, ⁓ not to get too judgmental about whether that was a good thing or a bad thing, because it might take some time to find out, you know, how it all works out.

Tiger (14:29)
Yeah, I mean, guess I would in my wrap up for this, I suppose that all those points really, really good. And it is important for me not to bring in any baggage when I'm starting something fresh.

it's, it's, was, ⁓ another leader reminded me about where that if I'm starting something new, even though I'm anticipating some challenges coming, right. And this is the real world. You know, we need to use our intellect to analyze and dissect a bit, you know, we don't want to walk into trouble, you know, but at the same time, I need to be. Bring that positive energy forward. So I don't.

have some ideology to come and affect things or pollute things that I'm starting new. And so that's where the power of positive thinking comes in. Not so much where it's toxic positivity, where I'm not going to look at all the challenges and not look at reality. But it is, OK, here's what I want to do. This is what I want to accomplish. Here are the the pluses and minuses. You need be aware of these things. But now I'm going to, you know, do that energy of

everything that can go right is going to go right. And anything that does come at me, whether it's not so great or great,

It is part of my destiny and I'm going to use it to go forward and have that reset and have that positive outcome. Because if that person is not the one that I actually needed, they will help lead me to the person that was needed. And that is that energy that I need to be a part of. Otherwise, I'm besides besides all the stuff I can do to myself, I'm setting up other

people to not be their best. So that's my conclusion on it. It was interesting. It was a light story, but I think it was just indicative of that energy of like you're bringing up that reset, that having that clarity, not being partisan about things in my mind so that I'm clear about what I need and want. And then also being having that energy of crystal clear communication.

TNT SpiritWorks (16:51)
Sounds good.

All right, Tom. Well, you're up next. What you got? What what's been wrong? What have you been looking at this week in the? Well, one of the stories that struck me was the the Supreme Court is evaluating a lawsuit by a group of parents that want to be able to opt out in public schools of ⁓ LGBTQ literature, and ⁓ they want to be able to handle that at home. And I guess in the past.

in this particular case, they were able to opt out for their kids and leave it to the parents to talk about those kinds of issues. And ⁓ one of the reasons that it kind of caught my interest was that ⁓ the energy behind this, Teresa and I were talking about it the other day where I said, know, I certainly probably personally relate to being a parent that wants ⁓

control or the input of when my kids or when, you know, young people that I'm in charge of get, you know, exposed to certain ideas and, and have them presented in the way that I feel is important. And, ⁓ you know, I think it impinges upon my freedom and my good judgment and my maturity for someone else to say, no, we have a better way of dealing with this. So that's my preference. But I thought about it and I went, you know,

those teachers that are ⁓ pushing that they want to be able to share this information with the students. You know, there's a lot of true concern there. There's some concern that they want kids to feel comfortable in their own skin, know, pun intended. And it just struck me that ⁓ whilst I can have my ideas,

as to what I feel is appropriate, that the other side is not necessarily coming from a mean or negative or mean-spirited. I mean, sometimes they are, right? But actually, there's lots of people who think it's a good idea, and they have concern. now we're moving through a system in our courts, which...

the Supreme Court will make up their minds one way or the other. But I think that's what I really wanted to talk about or what I felt like behind things spiritually is that ⁓ recognizing that a lot of what people want to do is based on a concern they have, but maybe they don't ⁓ know how to implement that, or that's where we fight over the interpretation of the concern. Anybody got anything to say about that one?

Tiger (19:43)
Yeah,

I do. This is this is a can be for some people a nice hot topic. ⁓ It can be a moral issue to some ⁓ for myself.

TNT SpiritWorks (19:51)
Yeah.

Tiger (19:59)
I always come in and this is what I always share with other leaders as well as well as people on the street. The soul has no color, no sex, no creed, no language. And so. What that basically means is pretty much from almost from the beginning, we're talking about preferences.

I'm talking about my preferences. You're talking about your preferences. We're talking about preferences because I can't take the physical body with me when it's time to go home. Right. It returns to the dust and the soul goes back to the source. know, so this is all comes down to me about the preferences and.

To me, having freedom is important. There's that liberty point of it where as a human being,

I want people to have that liberty. But freedom isn't an inner thing. So liberty on the outside, freedom on the inside. They're the same. They're the same thing. But one's more material and one's more spiritual for the sake of this conversation. Right. So. The the interesting thing about this particular story is it's not forcing someone to.

TNT SpiritWorks (21:21)
Mm-hmm.

Tiger (21:34)
live a certain lifestyle, I have an alternative lifestyle, it's not some religion trying to force something on top of me. This is about people who want to opt out of the system. So already, to me, this is starting to smell funny. This is starting to smell funny to me because...

TNT SpiritWorks (21:47)
Right.

Tiger (21:58)
Number one, the system is there so that we all get along. Right. And if as a community, if we can't agree on everything, then we need to get out of our preferences, come down to what's important. If we can't agree on what's important, then we need to come down even further to the foundation and say, what's essential?

If we're going to be working together, what's essential? So in the school system, these teachers are wonderful teachers. They're doing the best they can. But when the system starts to want the preferences in there ahead of what's essential, right? Reading, writing, arithmetic, right? These kinds of music could be an important, but not necessarily an essential. But why am I bringing that up is because I...

TNT SpiritWorks (22:42)
Right.

Tiger (22:53)
We as sensitives forget the story for a minute. If I'm not cleaning clear the difference between my preferences and what is essential and or important.

Boy, I'm going to have a lot of troubles. I'm I am setting myself up to be at loggerheads, as they say, real confrontation with a lot of people because I start living in my preferences and everybody else has their own preferences. So I lose the common denominator. I lose my ability to start connecting with the people I came to work with.

And even if that's one minute at the laundromat where, hey, yeah, you got to change for a dollar, sure. Even if it's at that, I lose that exchange because now preference dominate.

Right. Well, I don't like that one because they don't have hair like me or they don't have a preference of how I like to hug people or, whatever. Now I've got into this big deal. Right. And I can't even do what I came to do spiritually. So the first thing that they've got a couple of things on this story is a good story that the first thing for me is being real sensitive that I don't allow my preferences to get in the way of what's important and certainly not in the way

TNT SpiritWorks (23:56)
Hmm.

Tiger (24:22)
of what's essential. That's the first thing.

TNT SpiritWorks (24:24)
Yeah, so yeah, that's an

interesting perspective there. Because the word I would say is choices. Beyond preferences, because of course, you know, for me, choices is our you know, do I choose to do do I have the ability to choose that for we'll say in this case, my child. And I know for myself, when this story came up, and and just tuning into it energetically, there is a primal instinct within moms and dads.

Tiger (24:28)
Hahaha

TNT SpiritWorks (24:54)
of protecting the children. And now, especially when they're young and so recognizing when people have their preferences or have, you know, ⁓ maybe they're biased, like you said, maybe they're a lesbian teacher couple and they want to bring that into the, you know, into the school. Well, that also goes back to, you know, you could also take your child to a Christian school. There's other, there's other alternative, you know, measures to. ⁓

Tiger (25:19)
Mm-hmm.

TNT SpiritWorks (25:21)
But back to that primal instinct and that primal, those primal energetic, protect the young, protect, know, protect the innocent, allow them to develop and explore. And, you know, I even heard recently there was something like some kids were, you know, were being kind of groomed towards that. And then by time they were like, I don't know, eight or nine, they were saying they were bisexual and like, how does a kid even know, you know, what that even is at that age? So

Well, and probably most kids are bisexual at seven or eight or something, know, right? Yeah, but I mean, but it's you know, they're trying to sense, know, in a sense. Yeah, but they were sharing their ⁓ ideology on them. Yeah, then versus, you know, letting them choose. So that's just the part that I want to bring up around choices and preferences is, is there's an energy of that primal behind it of protecting the young and you know, and same as if I was, you know, a lesbian couple and I wanted to protect my

little child, so she grew up and was very open to everything, then that's, that's a preference, right? What struck me was that, you know, that common denominator feeling one with all requires respect for everybody's point of view. Or, and I guess we have to work with what's the common denominator and what's the priority. So ⁓ I'm not here to pass judgment on

Tiger (26:24)
Mm-hmm.

TNT SpiritWorks (26:46)
LGBTQ people at all. ⁓ It's more like how do we have if we're going to have a communal system, are we going to have a system to benefit everyone? How you know, let's what I heard you say earlier, tigers, let's keep that common denominator in place, so that we all feel respected and that we all feel, you know, we can tune into that one with all that positive, loving, kind sharing vibration.

Tiger (27:13)
Yeah, I mean...

TNT SpiritWorks (27:14)
You know

you're not in it when you start arguing over an ideology that's getting you all heated up. Now it's becoming a moral issue and I've moved on.

Tiger (27:20)
Yeah.

Yeah, and the key thing for me, and I'm going to move a fair bit past the story into ⁓ the feeling for me, is just number one, Teresa, you're bringing up that beautiful point I was going to make, so thank you for getting it out there first, is all this does, it helps me identify.

TNT SpiritWorks (27:34)
Uh-huh.

Tiger (27:51)
what's important to me and where I need to be when I need to be.

because there are groups, are ⁓ people who will be attracted in the community to learn certain lessons. And so that's the beauty of the system that the that the American system has is that it allows so much diversity within the different communities around the United States. Right. As opposed to trying to have one rule that

fits for everybody kind of thing. it's good in the sense that

If this is not something that parents want to have for their children, then it helps start to notify them. I can try to make a change here or I need to find a different community. Right. So as long as the moral issue is not front and center, it helps me with my direction. It helps me find the area I need to be in so that I can learn and grow the way I need to learn and

grow and in this case with the people that they're responsible, the souls that they're responsible for these young people and the parents. Right. But even more is it comes back to the last piece you're saying, Tom, is that when it comes to working with people in the community, I need to have a good solid inner standard. Right. And that solid inner standard, at least for me, and what the training that was passed on to me is

⁓ self-respect, human dignity, and live and let live. Then from there, from there I can get into, you know, the different things with different people or different groups. But having that sense of live and let live, human dignity, self-respect,

Right? That starts to at least set the stage now that I can work with anybody. I can do what I've come to do. I can move into that community. I can move into that community. Now we have a common denominator. So my my I guess my last piece on this part is just the energy, how important it is that everything is helping me.

TNT SpiritWorks (30:03)
Yeah.

Tiger (30:23)
I can get stuck in my own preferences, my own ideology, and think that things are hurting me. They're against me. No, the truth is, especially spiritually, but even as a practical matter, all these things are helping me point.

clearly of what I need to work on personally and also where I need to be. this is not my community, let me find my community. And just for the people on the social media or something, I'm not saying run away from other people. I'm not saying isolate from a community just because I don't, that I disagree with them. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that I need to find the groups and people so that I can learn and grow for that lesson. And what will happen

is I'll outgrow that and then I'll go find the next thing. So I need to rub elbows with different ideas, different people, different understandings so I get what I need. But that energy of human dignity, self-respect, live and let live, that's the base standard that I can count on in this material world.

TNT SpiritWorks (31:37)
Yeah, and I guess for myself, ⁓ the one that comes up about all this is also that, you know, as a soul, we've each of us has set up opportunities for growing and lessons. And some of them have some of more obstacles. Some of them are maybe don't maybe are different, the opposite of obstacles. Maybe they're a little more pleasant to get through. But they're all a learning experience of, you know, like we're talking about preferences, ⁓ boundaries. Where do you begin and end with the rights of others and your rights and

opting in and opting out. it's really those opposing forces, but recognizing that everything is set up absolutely perfectly for this moment in time and for where all these people are, are moving through. Cause who knows? I mean, as a group, these parents that came together, they might've had some, some, know, revenge or something from the past that they brought in to, to work through in this scenario and to heal from it. I mean, we have no idea what they're all working on.

Tiger (32:28)
Mmm.

TNT SpiritWorks (32:34)
So there's that aspect too of whenever I see something like this going on in different areas, right? There's all kinds of people that hate, people that love in all kinds of scenarios between political and religion and yada yada. But recognizing that it's all really perfectly set up for what those souls have to go through. And I think about myself and when I had children too, there were things that happened with bullying and I had to go into school and talk to the board and my gosh, it was like a big deal. And so.

and recognize that that's something I had to go through at that moment. And now it's about LGBTQ, or it's about sexual preferences, or boys being in locker room or whatever it's about at this moment in time, it's set up perfectly for the people who are going through it. So my final comments would be everything's a means to an end. It's not the end in itself. ⁓ And I love that live and let live. And some of these are experiments and how people are finding out about

their own self respect and how to respect other folks. So let's take a quick break.

We're back and Teresa's God ⁓ favorite part of this inspirational story of the. What do got for us today, Teresa? Well, this one goes to a diner, a diner in Pittsburgh called Eat and Park. There was a lady and her son that went to this diner and when they went in, they saw an elderly waitress.

Tiger (33:48)
Hehehe.

TNT SpiritWorks (34:07)
who was having some physical problems, was moving around and helping people in the diner. And they overheard some of the things this lady was saying, and she was basically saying how she has problems getting around, her back's hurting, she can't retire because she gets her social security check and it's only under $1,000 a month, so it doesn't pay all the bills, so she has to keep working this job that's really a lot of stress on her body.

And this really hit this lady and her son big time, especially the lady. And so she went through TikTok and put out a post basically saying, look, if anything in my life goes viral, I want this to go viral. I want to help this lady. So she put out a plea to her community that absolutely went viral. And money started coming in and she actually had to start a GoFundMe movement for this lady named Betty, who was the waitress.

And it started out to be like literally over 100 grand. And at the end, over 300 grand was actually raised, like about 329,000. So and it turns out that this lady, Betty, who was the waitress was, you know, obviously awestruck that this happened and she's having financial issues in her family. And so this is something that she was just beyond excited about that a stranger would help her like this and all these other strangers. So

Just a really great story ⁓ that I want to bring up today when I found that I'm like, this is a heartwarming one. So what do you guys, what's your thoughts on that story? Well, for me, I just love the fact that communities come together. It's another form of a community coming together, probably people all over the country to, you know, help out another person who's sincerely doing the best they can and doing their 50 percent. And I got a kick out of one of her comments in the article where she said,

I'm 81 years old and I'm still faster than all these young whippersnappers, you know? So, ⁓ probably is, probably is, you know? So, ⁓ cause she's directed in service and she said she loves doing what she does. It's just that she's got, you know, she's getting older. So she's getting aches and pains and creaky and stuff like that. So yeah, a beautiful, hopeful, I know the feeling I get from it is like, there's hope, you know, that

Tiger (36:08)
We're for snappers, yeah.

TNT SpiritWorks (36:32)
As long as I communicate, you'd be surprised at what, you know, come my way to help me through certain situations if I'm doing the best I can to be of service.

Tiger (36:46)
Yep. To me, is this immediately when when you brought this story up, ⁓ that says I immediately started thinking about karma. You know, what's going on behind the scenes?

TNT SpiritWorks (37:00)
I had that thought too, it's funny.

Yeah.

Tiger (37:04)
you know,

that that this happened because there's plenty of people who don't have this kind of fortune ⁓ happen to them. ⁓ So like what's going on there? So obviously there's something going on there. That's the first impression that I got. The other thing that I, I, I tuned into was what you said about community on this and how

a lifetime of service, how that affects people, right? How that affects people. So

This energy here is a reminder about when I'm outflowing, when I'm just truly giving of myself, giving of my time and my energy, just giving. That is the essence of love. And that's why, at least for me and I feel in the programs that we work with, service, the key word service, not servant, service,

is a powerful, powerful thing because it it emulates the vibration of love and love is giving.

Love is giving, just flat out simple. Love is giving, period. Right. There's nothing after it. You don't need to put a bunch of things with it. It's giving. And so that vibration of this, this lovely lady, Betty, ⁓ being of service, here she is. How many years have she been doing that? Right. And, and now all of a sudden there's this energy of the service coming back.

Right. Wanting to to pay that that all that energy she paid forward. Here's this energy. Right. And so to me, that number one, it's that energy of there's something more going on there for her. There's something there. ⁓ Betty, if you're listening, just be cautious when you get money. You have a lot of friends all of a sudden. But ⁓ all that aside, it's it's a great story. There's more to share on it. But the first impressions was number one.

TNT SpiritWorks (39:07)
Yeah, I was going to say.

Tiger (39:18)
There's something going on there at a bigger picture for her to work with that, right?

⁓ And the second thing was just the energy of service just giving and like you're saying I saw I noticed the same thing In the story about you know, I could run in circles around these whippersnappers, you know Because she's of service so many young people will come in and they're just they haven't learned what service really is and here's this person who's been doing it for how long when you know the beginnings of all this kind of thing my you know, it's tremendous and if anything

TNT SpiritWorks (39:35)
Mm-hmm.

Tiger (39:54)
I hope she puts on a five minute youtuber every week of how to be of service to people. It's a great story

TNT SpiritWorks (40:01)
Yeah, for myself, I was actually inspired by the word love. So we'll have the link down below that you can watch this, watch this or you could read it and actually watch the tic tocs because the energy that came off of this mom who, who created the you know, who put forth the the tic tocs videos, her name is Tammy. It was so

inspiring and it was so heartfelt because she had tears and she she was really like telling how each time she went in to to share with Betty you know how much money they've raised like she was almost you know like consumed by just so like so much passion and happiness and it inspired me so much because in the world you know there's there's both sides there's and we need both sides we need the dark we need the light whatever you want to say the positive the negative and this is just one of those stories where

Tiger (40:40)
Yeah.

TNT SpiritWorks (40:55)
this does happen. Like things like this do happen in the world. And so just like that one, you know, we talked about what the ladies in Africa getting those carts and, know, and being inspired to, to raise their vibration to now they can be like, you know, leaders of their household and stuff. mean, this is the same type of thing in the sense that, you know, she, Betty's going to be now given some money where maybe she can retire early or maybe she can get herself, you know, some, some help with her body or treatment. Yeah.

So it's just that love and that ability to just, you know, when you see, when someone sees a situation, they just act on it. It's so beautiful because that, you know, I always, I've done that my whole life and certain things like I just move and this lady just moved. She went left there. She actually left her a $40 tip, all the money she had in her purse and goes, I'm going to help this lady went outside and did a video. And so, and then just started the energy just started. So it was just a beautiful.

⁓ situation and a beautiful, you know, action of being in love vibration.

Tiger (42:01)
Yeah, just to add something real quick there, I know you're eager there, but I don't want to lose it here.

TNT SpiritWorks (42:04)
Yeah.

Tiger (42:10)
I'm glad you shared that because I've had people come up to me and share like, how do I know when to get involved? How do I know when to share or communicate? How do I know when to give the gal or guy on the street a dollar? Right. Because sometimes you're concerned about it. They're going to take that dollar and blow it up into their arm or booze or something. So.

my predecessor, the founder of the program.

I had this question asked of him. And I'm giving away secrets here. So everybody pay attention. We're in a big program and someone says, you know how he was talking about just sharing and giving of yourself and, know, don't be afraid to step out and do those things just like this lady did for the Betty. So the one question was, you know, well, how do I know when to do that and not I'm not getting myself involved in someone else's business, right? Like there are.

times when the best thing I can do is actually leave it alone. There is such a thing. how do I know? And so his response, he just looked at the person who was asking the question, says, well, how do you know when to go to the toilet?

TNT SpiritWorks (43:31)
You know.

Tiger (43:33)
And we all had a good laugh about it,

you know, and and he was was was so kind of out of the box, but it was so proper to say, I mean, well, because I truly feel it.

I truly feel it. And so that's why I go back to that energy of which we kind of started with earlier in our ⁓ episode here is knowing where I begin and end, what my needs are, knowing what my wants are, because I'm coming from that pivot point that's solid. And then when I am moved to give or move to help or move to be involved, it's genuine. Like, clearly this lady

in to something that was genuinely needed because how is it that she could do that tick-tock and then all these people with a stranger starts putting money in and bam hear this 300 plus K 300,000 plus dollars show up in a short amount of time so you know you're hitting the mark the right place right time doing what needs to happen but that starts with a pure feeling so

That's the first thing I just wanted to say is that how do I know when to get is when to give us when I really genuinely feel it. It's not just somebody. the poor lady. She's just you know, she's so old and her arthritis. Gosh, somebody should help her. Maybe I should do that. That's an intellectual idea. Of course, I'm aware of that intellectually. But do I really feel moved? Right. And this woman clearly did. So that's the first thing. And then.

The last piece for me on this, ⁓ you stimulated there, that I say is focus. Focused light, focused energy. It is time after time, story after story, that when we see these people do incredible things because they focus their energy.

They aren't off in fairy tale land. They're not off worrying about stuff. They have a mission.

And so to me, that to bring that home to myself and and maybe some of you listening is imagine, imagine what I could do. Imagine what you could do if you just started focusing that light of yours, right? That light that you are, imagine that focus, bringing that energy like a laser beam into focus. And that's what we talk about, the cleansing technique that we do.

in your workshops that you all do, that cleansing technique is an example of taking my energy and start to focus it. So when I'm out there being of service to people, when I'm out there working with different things in my life, whether I'm washing the dishes or I'm sharing with a bunch of people on a podium, it doesn't matter how little or how big someone thinks it is, is my energy together? Am I bringing that energy of focus in so that the light that I am,

aura, the continents that I am now has a channel. It has the energy to move forward and do something wonderful and great like this story here. And now we'll see how it works if that lady is able to take the same focus and put it into her own life. That'll be the test to see or whether it was just something that was karmic with this one ⁓ Betty happening. But the point is that

energy of focus and bringing all my aura, bringing all my energy into something clean and clear and then it's amazing what can happen.

TNT SpiritWorks (47:30)
They will say to them. No, I think that about sums it up. OK, well, yeah, I totally agree with that. And so let's kind of let's look back at this episode and just chat a little bit about some of the commonalities it had, because we like to kind of bring it all together. And what did you kind of pick up?

I know what I picked up. I'd like you to share first. I picked up the energy of love. Loving, being alive, loving, being a feeling fulfilled, finding ways to come together with other people and doing great things in the world, like, you know, the common goal of coming together with other nations and coming together, you know, as groups to to move forward for the next generation. So it's really that that's the real key for myself of this whole.

sharing is around the energy of love. I guess for me, it's that there's always solutions. And to recognize that, you know, it's, it's not all like, they're evil, or they're bad, and we're good. And, you know, as soon as I get caught in that, I'm getting into moral issues. And if I just accept, you know, but I do feel something like, you know, that I

it feels good to respect myself and respect others and that live in left live vibration is a beautiful. That's what we're all sort of a lot of us are, you know, looking for we relate, we resonate with that we resonate with that. And also just getting back to that bigger picture that I'm a soul here to learn and grow. And so whatever is going on around me in the world, it's an opportunity for me to ⁓

rise above it or work with that situation or reset and You know go on from there Even just talking this way, you know It's so nice because I hope that some of the folks out that are listening feel the same way that Just to get back to yeah, there's a bigger picture here All these troubles I'm having are my daily worries are not the whole point. You know, there's

I'm here for a reason. I'm here to learn and grow. And when it's all said and done, everything will be okay.

Tiger (49:47)
Yeah, and I can relate to both of those. I'd say the my summation and the common denominator that's moving through a lot of these stories for me is the phrase ⁓ knowing where I begin and end.

that it seems to me that there's so the commonplace of all these stories and others. We felt it through other stories that we just didn't put on on this episode. And it seems that if I'm clean and clear with where I begin and end, I know what's me and not me. How much?

more I can do, how better I can do in my situations. So if I know where I begin and end, I can be of service and I can be moved at the right time. I can be a vessel. I can be obedient to spirit and my true feelings and for my own needs and wants for my own goals. Right. Because I know where I begin and end. I can make those that new alliances with people and they can get what they need.

and can get what I need because I know where I begin and end. And if I know where I begin and end, I can be able to work with others who may not think like me because we can come back to a common denominator that we can all work with. And if that's not going to happen, at least then it's upfront and clear and we can leave in peace. You get to go that way. I get to go that way rather than me creating another conflict and war.

and have to clean up some karmic sting all over again, right? Yeah, it's like, now I gotta go fix this again. So that energy of knowing where I begin and end, ⁓ and that's a kind of pseudo code for who am I, where did I come from, and where am I going. Just having those simple things clear, and it's amazing how much that cleans things up.

TNT SpiritWorks (51:28)
Yeah, centuries later or something.

Tiger (51:53)
where I can work with so many people because I just know where I begin and end. ⁓ my wrap up to this is just I had someone once we were doing a project and we were kind of starting to wrap it up, the project, and we closed up the project and someone said, hey, let's go do this now. Right. Some some fellowship or something like that. And ⁓ the bottom line was one of the people that were helping us says,

Nope, I need to be someplace else. And it was a bit of a surprise and shock at first, but then I realized, wow, that person's really loyal to themselves. They have another appointment to go be of service over here. And that would have done some, you know, put them off their target. So ⁓ anyway, just that energy of knowing where I begin and end is the common denominator.

TNT SpiritWorks (52:47)
Awesome. And so this was another absolutely fabulous ⁓ exploration of spiritual perspective. Sure was. And discerning the news. So we thank you all out there for listening in. And if you enjoyed this episode, please make sure that you comment below. We'd love to hear your comments. Also share freely with your friends and family. And we will all be back next week. And just remember that whenever you're out there and you're hearing some news going on, just contemplate the spiritual perspective that might be going on behind the scene. The bigger picture.

and that might give you some clarity on what's really going on. See you guys next week. See you soon.