Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 7.2.26

Steve Harvey closed his show on a Thursday by sharing something personal: a list a pastor friend sent him called the seven rules of life. The friend said he had heard Harvey say all of them on air at one point or another. Harvey read them aloud, but he started with a framing that matters more than the list itself. He told his audience about a group chat with 13 men he went to school with, guys who knew him before his fame. "They knew me before all of this," he said. "They seen the changes in me and they see the similarities in me. And they cool with both of them." That led him to a saying he has developed: "I was who I was and I am who I am. And I'm cool with both them people." The seven rules, he said, are just a printed version of things he has been saying for years.

Make peace with your past

The first rule was "Make peace with your past so it won't disturb your present." Harvey emphasized that people need to stop letting others hold them to old mistakes. "Stop allowing people to come into your life to remind you of who you were when clearly you've changed and moved on," he said. He added a blunt theological point: "Stop allowing people to hold you to your past mistakes when God has clearly forgiven you." He said he no longer worries about people talking about him because they often do not know the full story.

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