Sommer Miner Part 4

Today on **John Dash and Friends**, John sits down with Sommer Miner, This young lady is the true definition of perseverance and determination. As she shares how God reach down and brought her through the battels of life. She's a bright light in this world and her testimony will prove that Gods not done with anyone. For the full Interview go to John Dash and Friends Facebook Site.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Finally he made up his mind. But when you meet him now, you just his testimony just I mean he just changes the world to hear him. And he's raising his family real solid and and just uh met his wife in rehab. She came to the Lord as her fourth time in rehab and come to the Lord, come from a great family, and everything was just fine. Her testimony, Megan uh Dash, she's on you sometimes I send you the link, let you listen to her. She just is great. But I listened to her, talk about it, and it's not like she came through a hard life.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

You know, I mean, but and she was talking about the other day, she said, you know, I've got 30 kids in my Sunday school class, but one point in my life I couldn't even have my own children. But now I've got 30 I'm trusted with. And I think how God just does these things. I'm just so vexed on people that are chosen. Okay? I'm just uh I'll I'll share this. And it's alright again. We don't have to agree on everything. I don't care what Barry told you. All right. We uh I think it won't work for everybody, okay? I believe he died for all, but I don't believe everybody belongs to him. Because he said there's many called and fewer chosen. And he talks about the net being cast out. And I think sometimes we try to, and he's said there'll be some stand before me, say, Have you not cast out devils in your name and healed the sick? And he says, I don't even know who you are. So the principles of Christianity work no matter what, of the Bible, work no matter what. If we and even if we don't believe them, they work. But uh, but I think there's such a strong point here that there's people when you look at your life that you fought with all you could fight with not to do it. I mean, every little ounce of you you was pushing against it, but God still pow, pow, pow. I think that's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

Yeah. I trust the anointing.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

Okay? I really do. I just trust the anointing. I don't I don't have to, I don't worry about that in everything I do. And I I listen to you talk about that in your life when you think about who are some people that have been I now outside of Barry and his wife, I don't want to make it an easy question. Okay. But who are some people that have inspired you in your life that you think about?

SPEAKER_01 2:17

Um well I guess uh I see the easy one being Barry.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Well, now yeah, yeah, yeah. That one that that would that would be a we ain't gonna do it that easy.

SPEAKER_01 2:29

Um my mom and dad have both inspired me. They're not together, but they've not been together since I was in second grade. But you know, uh I think about the challenges and stuff they've had in life, but they've persevered. And my grandmas, and especially uh my one grandma Fleming, you know, she was my mom's mom, but um she was a really big inspiration. She prayed for me a lot, and you know, she really inspired me in a lot of different ways.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

See, I think it's important we think about those things and don't forget 'em.

SPEAKER_01 3:10

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

You know what I mean? Because I think so many great people are forgotten. And we share a lot about memories, and Barry and I did too. But you don't know memories are memories when you're making them, you think it's a normal day.

SPEAKER_01 3:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:21

But when you think about people that inspired you in your life, and it's important, I think, we give recognition to that, and we bring to remembrance. You know, this person has touched me, this person was good to me. You know, and uh I interviewed a gentleman the other day, Gary McCann Jr. His dad, McCann's and stuff. But I think about uh his dad's passed away for several years, a few years now, but I liked him. I brought his son in and we talked about his dad. I wanted people to hear what a good man he was. I wanted to hear that and and bring that to remembrance to people. And uh because it's important. Yes, because it slips away. You know what I mean? And I know some things have to with time, and people won't remember. I laugh when I look at Taswell. People don't remember when McDonald's was right out here where Advance Auto was. They don't remember that. They don't remember there used to be a uh stock a livestock market out here where food line was, was one of the biggest things you've ever seen. I mean, it was enormous. That all was a big livestock market. And on Mondays, you couldn't get through this place for the cows and the horses and the people.

unknown 4:31

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

I don't remember none of that stuff. You know, but see the stuff that goes past us and uh we don't remember.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

Um I do remember it being a flea market. Yeah, this was I remember it being a flea market when I was a kid.

SPEAKER_00 4:44

You was just a kid. Yeah, I guarantee you you were just a little tiny, but it it was a big livestock market. We would come over there on Mondays and my daddy would buy ponies and throw me up in the back of the truck, you know, with a set of racks on it and a bunch of wild ponies. We would ride back to West Virginia and we'd get us some strings and ropes and put on them ponies' necks and ride them all day till they were broke and we didn't think nothing about it. Throw me up in there, and there'd be cows running up and down the market, and he would give me a whip, and I'd get down there with them wild cows and chase them up there, you know, and there I was. I couldn't have been 10 years old, you know. I don't know, it's crazy. And you think about the things you did when they come through there. Well, so what we think lessons. Owning a business, okay, and we'll deal with some more Jesus in a minute, but I when we talk about owning a business, that's a tough thing to be self-employed and own own own your own business. What are some lessons you're learning?

SPEAKER_01 5:40

Um so I've had my business now for eleven or twelve years. So it's been a while, and you know, it was and when I first started out in it, I didn't know how to do like the books and the taxes and stuff like that. And actually God, you know, it's like anything you do what's in your ability, and when you trust God, He takes care of what you can do. And so I was just thinking, well, I don't know how to do this stuff, and this man in my church had retired from the bank. He was a bank uh president or something, and he had just retired when I first opened my business, so he took me under his wing and he started, you know, um teaching me about the books and how to keep up with the numbers and stuff like that and how to do taxes and things like that. So God used him for that. But with um business, uh they've had me come in and like talk to the girls that was in getting ready to graduate through cosmetology, and I always tell them this you don't even have to be that good as long as you show up. You know, because if you show up every day, if you don't cancel people, if you are there when you're supposed to be there, you that's gonna put you above ninety percent of the people out here working. Yeah. So I think that's like the biggest thing is showing up, being consistent, you know, don't get discouraged. Right, you know.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

You know, and the thing about, and I don't know a lot about them, but about beauticians, okay? Once a woman locks in, or a man, I'm not not knocking Barry out, okay, once you lock in, they'll stay with you. Okay. I mean, my wife might change heart doctors, but she ain't gonna change beauticians. And the beautician she has, she'll she's real good at coloring, my wife says. But she said she tells her, now I'm not that good at cutting, but I'm I'm good at and she's really good at coloring. And and this is the thing too, I have no idea how much it cost. She never tells me, and I never ask. Okay, I don't say a thing about it. You know what I mean? It's like it doesn't matter. You could go in, she could say, you know, we need to get a loan on the house because we it's it's really gone up to $2,000 or whatever it is. I saw honey, whatever we'll stop by the bank and see what we can do. Because it it doesn't really matter, okay? So it's pretty good. And people always gonna get their hair done. They're gonna get their hair done, and they're gonna go, they're gonna they're gonna go to the graveyard and they're gonna get their hair done. I've watched them time and time again that people do it, and once they lock in with