Speaker 1: Has March been roaring in like a lion in your
Speaker 1: little corner of the world. It's traditionally been the month
Speaker 1: of crazy weather, an outward sign of a dramatic seasonal shift.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to face down three or four months
Speaker 1: of these crazy weather mood swings, but I can deal
Speaker 1: with a few weeks of it, knowing what the glorious
Speaker 1: outcome will be. I'm a little sad to see February
Speaker 1: in the rear view mirror, though I hope it was
Speaker 1: as good to you as it was to me, and
Speaker 1: I hope you felt seen and heard and loved. Today's
Speaker 1: guest is amazing at doing and teaching those skills and
Speaker 1: sharing their importance in a myriad of ways. Along with
Speaker 1: his writings, he's often found giving guest sermons at churches
Speaker 1: across the country, or speaking to large and small groups alike.
Speaker 1: Jason Wright is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 1: and USA Today best selling novelist. His work that's included
Speaker 1: more than five hundred columns, has appeared in over one
Speaker 1: hundred newspapers, magazines, and websites across the US, including The
Speaker 1: Washington Post, The Washington Times, the Chicago Tribune, on and
Speaker 1: on and on. You may know him from his beloved books,
Speaker 1: Christmas Jars is one of my favorites, or maybe from
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty award winning film adaptation of Christmas Jars.
Speaker 1: Jason is the author of twenty one book titles, including
Speaker 1: the August twenty twenty two Delilah's book Club pick, the
Speaker 1: fictional feel good novel Even the Dog Knows, as well
Speaker 1: as my March choice this year, Rise Today, Trusting God
Speaker 1: in his promise, and the most pressing reason that I
Speaker 1: have asked Jason to join us today. He is also
Speaker 1: a popular speaker and consultant who provides training on kindness, habits,
Speaker 1: faith failure, the Christmas Jars movement, the Lost art of
Speaker 1: letter writing, and now he's with us today to talk
Speaker 1: about all of that and whatever else is on his heart.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to hear all about Jason's latest book, Rise Today.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that right after I give some time
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Speaker 1: dot org. Jason Wright, Welcome back. It's been a while
Speaker 1: since we spoke, and I'm so happy that you agreed
Speaker 1: to be a guest on Love Someone today for so
Speaker 1: many reasons, For so many reasons, I want to just
Speaker 1: reach through the zoom and hug you. Yeah, if we
Speaker 1: could just you know, if Zoom had some kind of
Speaker 1: a three D reach through and just grab your buy
Speaker 1: your cheeks and say thank you, That's what I would do.
Speaker 1: So I'm so grateful for you, and I know that
Speaker 1: we had chatted over the last few days as we're
Speaker 1: arranging this with your producer. But you were my first
Speaker 1: national radio interview, and Christmas Jars launched, and this this movement,
Speaker 1: I mean that was I remember doing that interview from
Speaker 1: my kitchen table in Fairfax, Virginia, where we lived at
Speaker 1: the time. And since then, I went from two kids
Speaker 1: to four. My oldest now is married with kids of
Speaker 1: her own, and that little book has been translated and
Speaker 1: sold around the world, and it has, more importantly than
Speaker 1: a book, led to a movement, and it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 1: It was the beginning of a career. And I'm great
Speaker 1: also just for your audience. I know that we've had
Speaker 1: great success connecting with your book club, and I'm grateful
Speaker 1: for them, and just that they think my work has
Speaker 1: even a little bit of value in their lives is
Speaker 1: unbelievably humbling for me. So to catch folks up in
Speaker 1: case somebody somehow miss the Christmas Jars. The book was good.
Speaker 1: I was afraid to watch the movie, to be honest,
Speaker 1: because I loved the book so much and I loved
Speaker 1: meeting you and talking about it so much. And I'm
Speaker 1: usually disappointed when I read a great book and it
Speaker 1: touches me. And then I watch a movie and the actors,
Speaker 1: the performers don't look like the characters in my mind
Speaker 1: and my spirit, the dialogue doesn't match up, or the
Speaker 1: whole spirit of the book is lost in translation. So
Speaker 1: I was a little I had a little fear. I'm
Speaker 1: going to be honest, Jason. When I decided to watch
Speaker 1: the Christmas Jars, boy, I was so happy and not disappointed,
Speaker 1: and like you said, it spurred ale a whole movement.
Speaker 1: How many thousands of families now have a Christmas jar
Speaker 1: probably setting in their laundry room, because when you empty
Speaker 1: out the kid's pockets and you find a couple of
Speaker 1: quarters or a couple of dollar bills, you just put
Speaker 1: it in the Christmas jar, and then come Christmas time,
Speaker 1: you pray about it, you think about it, and you
Speaker 1: decide on a family that needs help. It's just such
Speaker 1: a sweet, simple thing. And who would who would have imagined,
Speaker 1: I mean, in our wildest dreams. I remember those early
Speaker 1: meetings with a publisher almost eighteen years ago, eighteen years
Speaker 1: actually eighteen years ago right now we were finalizing the
Speaker 1: contract to publish that I didn't have an agent, an attorney.
Speaker 1: I just it was just me and a publisher that said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll take a chance on this, and they
Speaker 1: believed that it could become bigger than a book, that
Speaker 1: it could become a movement. They probably had more faith
Speaker 1: in it even than I did at the time. And
Speaker 1: I just remember them saying, maybe over the life cycle
Speaker 1: of this book, you might sell twenty thousand copies, and
Speaker 1: I just thought, you know, that's someone's probably gonna get fired.
Speaker 1: There's no way you're going to sell that many books.
Speaker 1: And it's it's I don't I've lost count. It's well
Speaker 1: over a million copies in languages around the world, and
Speaker 1: I'm just thrilled. One of my favorite things, Delilah, is
Speaker 1: when someone comes up to me and says, I'm a
Speaker 1: part of this Christmas Jars movement, this tradition. I got
Speaker 1: a jar, I gave a jar, and I haven't even
Speaker 1: read the book yet, and that makes me so happy.
Speaker 1: It's so humbling to know that it has sort of
Speaker 1: gone beyond, you know, a product, to something that's really
Speaker 1: connected with people's hearts. And again, I think you and
Speaker 1: your audience for being such a big part of that,
Speaker 1: because when I was on your show that first time
Speaker 1: in two thousand and five. Nobody had any idea what
Speaker 1: this was or what it would have become, but you
Speaker 1: did so thank you. Well. I know that when God's
Speaker 1: at work, and he usually works through very humble, very
Speaker 1: simple settings and situations. Not that he can't work through
Speaker 1: grandiose or big events or people or whatever. But you
Speaker 1: are so humble and so sweet. Oh my goodness, such
Speaker 1: a sweet countenance in a sweetheart. And I thought, there's
Speaker 1: something magical here, there's something really special. So it was
Speaker 1: a joy. It was a joy. And now I'm so
Speaker 1: excited about Rise today because we need something to give
Speaker 1: us hope, We need something to remind us and trusting
Speaker 1: God and his promise the second part of your title.
Speaker 1: You got to know what his promise is to be
Speaker 1: able to trust it, right, Yeah? Amen, this is timely Well,
Speaker 1: I hope you're right. This began as a the book,
Speaker 1: as a simple social media post that resonated in a
Speaker 1: way I didn't expect that it would certainly larger than
Speaker 1: I thought it would, And and I began talking to
Speaker 1: my publisher more about this, this notion that we we
Speaker 1: feel like to rise again. You know, biblically means well,
Speaker 1: it's the resurrection. We wait until our opportunity, you know,
Speaker 1: to do what He did to to to be reunited
Speaker 1: and to you know, have this second beautiful chance. And
Speaker 1: the more I started thinking about that, that's a long
Speaker 1: way off. I mean, I hope. I'm not ready. I
Speaker 1: mean we hope. Yeah, I'm not quite ready for a
Speaker 1: judgment day. Um, I've got some work to do. I've
Speaker 1: got a lot of rough edges to polish off. So
Speaker 1: and not only that, you just had two more babies
Speaker 1: join your family. Yeah, we've got to We've got a
Speaker 1: big Yeah, we've got a big crew. I want to
Speaker 1: I want to be with them for a while, and
Speaker 1: I want to be ready. I want to be more
Speaker 1: ready when you know when he comes in this beautiful
Speaker 1: resurrection that you know, no matter what um faith you
Speaker 1: belong to, if you a Christian, you believe in this,
Speaker 1: this beautiful doctrine of the resurrection and rising again as
Speaker 1: he did. And that is so far off in the future.
Speaker 1: I just started to think, Wait a minute, what if
Speaker 1: we really believed that we could rise again emotionally and
Speaker 1: spiritually mentally right now, if we don't have to wait that,
Speaker 1: if yes, the resurrection is a promise from God. But
Speaker 1: there are other promises about his willingness to walk with
Speaker 1: us in our journey, a willingness to draw as close
Speaker 1: to us as we will allow him. He's not going
Speaker 1: to force himself, honest, he doesn't force himself into our hearts.
Speaker 1: We have to open that door for him and say, yes,
Speaker 1: I do want to be your best friend, because I
Speaker 1: know that you, God, are always willing to be mine.
Speaker 1: And I found a hope in that, in waking up
Speaker 1: every day and saying, man, yesterday was tough and I
Speaker 1: got bad news and this didn't go the way I
Speaker 1: thought it would, and this book was a complete flop
Speaker 1: and disaster, and as my career, dad, or my kid's
Speaker 1: going to be okay, and all those things that weigh
Speaker 1: us down that we worry about, particularly as we come
Speaker 1: out of this global pandemic, and I just began to
Speaker 1: find joy by reminding myself I can rise again today
Speaker 1: right now if I'll just lean on him in every
Speaker 1: way and know that He is ready to help me
Speaker 1: have a fresh start every day, every time you get up,
Speaker 1: every time you lift your head off the pillows, and
Speaker 1: opportunity to rise again. It doesn't matter how bad you
Speaker 1: messed up before you passed out. Doesn't matter if you
Speaker 1: literally passed out because you drank yourself into a stupor
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, if you woke up, if you
Speaker 1: lifted your head off the pillow or off the cement floor,
Speaker 1: or off whatever those mercies are, new every morning got
Speaker 1: a clean slate. And I don't think many people know that. No,
Speaker 1: and even when we and I've certainly in my life
Speaker 1: is a deeply imperfect person. I have been through stretches
Speaker 1: where I have believed that, and then the trials and
Speaker 1: the obstacles have piled up. And we all know what
Speaker 1: that feels like when suddenly a bad day links to
Speaker 1: another bad day, and it links to another bad day,
Speaker 1: and there's a sort of cumulative effect and you look
Speaker 1: and go, man, this has been a really hard month.
Speaker 1: And suddenly that notion of rising again, of lifting your
Speaker 1: head off the cement floor. I love that notion because
Speaker 1: that is the case for many of us sometimes, or
Speaker 1: off the fancy pillow, whatever it is. It's been so
Speaker 1: long that we forget and we just need a friend
Speaker 1: or a writer or one of the world's biggest talk
Speaker 1: show hosts to say, you know what, don't forget even
Speaker 1: though it's been a week, a month, a year, don't forget.
Speaker 1: You can still rise again today, even if it's been
Speaker 1: a while since you've felt that kind of hope. We
Speaker 1: I hope can help invite people to feel that way again.
Speaker 1: So I know, but hell our listeners how and it's
Speaker 1: hard to do because you wrote it, but how sweetly
Speaker 1: and simply it's laid out to give people steps, because
Speaker 1: I think when you complicate things, if you have a
Speaker 1: page with thirty two points or a speech with forty
Speaker 1: eight ways to you know, lower your cholesterol, you're not
Speaker 1: going to get past number two. Yeah, now that's that's
Speaker 1: all said. And you know, I read a lot of um,
Speaker 1: a lot of self help, a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: business minded self help, a lot of books in the
Speaker 1: Christian space, and they do sometimes get a little long,
Speaker 1: and they again I don't want to be negative at all,
Speaker 1: but I've read a few that just I picked it
Speaker 1: up and I felt like I was holding a textbook.
Speaker 1: And that's not what I'm That's not what I'm looking for,
Speaker 1: at least for my taste. I want something usually that
Speaker 1: I can digest pretty quickly, um that where I don't
Speaker 1: have to sit down with a pen and a piece
Speaker 1: of paper and a calcul later and dive into all
Speaker 1: the depth of whether it's doctrinal or not. I like
Speaker 1: something that that I can enjoy sort of quickly and
Speaker 1: that I can return to. So the book is laid
Speaker 1: out almost like a kind of a mini sermon. I
Speaker 1: don't know if the publisher cares, but I'll just read
Speaker 1: this first page because it's so short. The first three
Speaker 1: words are heat is risen on this beautiful, beautiful background.
Speaker 1: Shout out to the publisher's shadow mountain. They do such
Speaker 1: a beautiful job of designing books. Writers write the words,
Speaker 1: of course, but there is maybe this unheralded world of
Speaker 1: design art form. It's an art form, and it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's so beautiful. So it says he has risen. Those
Speaker 1: three words are more than a headline. They are a promise.
Speaker 1: Because he has risen, we shall rise again too. And
Speaker 1: then it says, what if this message of the resurrection
Speaker 1: is about more than reuniting a body and soul. What
Speaker 1: if the process of rising again can begin today? And
Speaker 1: then with again beautiful art, the team use light in
Speaker 1: a really beautiful way in each page to remind us
Speaker 1: that he is the source of all light. And then
Speaker 1: toward the back of the book, and I think this
Speaker 1: is what you were alluding to, I provide these five
Speaker 1: suggestions that I have seen work in my own life
Speaker 1: when I feel like I need that kind of reminder
Speaker 1: when I lift my head off the pillow that I
Speaker 1: can rise again, and just very simply their prayer, reading
Speaker 1: God's word, listening to sacred music, worshiping with others in service.
Speaker 1: And then I offer some details for each one on
Speaker 1: how adopting some of those spiritual habits can help again
Speaker 1: connect us to God. I think that a good book,
Speaker 1: and I hope that's what this is. I hope that
Speaker 1: ultimately what it does is connect people in some way
Speaker 1: to Heaven. Even if the heaven doesn't look the way
Speaker 1: I think mind does, or if you have different theologies,
Speaker 1: different religion, it's okay for me, it's okay, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because I believe if you search for Him with all
Speaker 1: your heart, you will find him with all your heart. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's that is beautifully said. And is there anyone listening
Speaker 1: right now that believes in anything at all beyond this moment,
Speaker 1: beyond this life, in this higher power again, whatever that
Speaker 1: looks like to you who doesn't believe that these five
Speaker 1: things can bless your life if you strive to adopt
Speaker 1: them as kind of daily habits. Prayer, yes, reading God's word, Yes.
Speaker 1: Listening to sacred music, which is a big umbrella in
Speaker 1: terms of what sacred music might look like. That could
Speaker 1: be everything from from your church choir to classical music
Speaker 1: from the great throughout history to contemporary Christian music. And
Speaker 1: then worshiping with others. Yes, there's great power no matter
Speaker 1: what your church looks like on Sunday, whether there's a
Speaker 1: cross out in front of your chapel or not, whether
Speaker 1: you call it a chapel or not, there's great power
Speaker 1: when we gather together with like minded people to honor
Speaker 1: that higher power and then service. For me, that's probably
Speaker 1: the most important of those. When I really am struggling
Speaker 1: to feel connected, to remember who I am, why I'm here,
Speaker 1: why I matter, and that I'm loved beyond my earthly family,
Speaker 1: but by something even bigger. When I struggle, I look
Speaker 1: for opportunities to go do something for someone. It might
Speaker 1: be as simple as dropping off store bought cookies at
Speaker 1: the neighbor across the street that I know has been
Speaker 1: under the weather for a couple of weeks, or sending
Speaker 1: a text to someone. I will often take my phone
Speaker 1: and I'll just pray for a little inspiration. Who is
Speaker 1: it that I have not heard from a long time.
Speaker 1: I have about fifty eight hundred contacts on my phone,
Speaker 1: too many, way too many. But I will often go
Speaker 1: through there and I might find someone I have not
Speaker 1: sent a text who in nearly a decade, and I'll
Speaker 1: just shoot them a note and say, I just want
Speaker 1: to know I'm thinking about you today and I don't
Speaker 1: know why, but you know what, You're tremendous, and thank
Speaker 1: you for the influence you've had on my life. Every
Speaker 1: single time I have done something like that, I have
Speaker 1: gotten the most beautiful response back, saying I needed I
Speaker 1: really needed to hear that today, and here I am
Speaker 1: hearing it from someone I haven't spoken to in nearly
Speaker 1: a decade. So, Servants, looks like, whatever you have time for,
Speaker 1: whatever you can offer, and maybe you should make time
Speaker 1: for amen. I'm so enjoying catching up and getting to
Speaker 1: know Jason f Right. He's got so much goodness to
Speaker 1: share with us. We've got more ground to cover. But
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Speaker 1: I just want to encourage anybody Jason who's going through
Speaker 1: a tough time right now that if they just pick
Speaker 1: up your sweet little book and put four of those
Speaker 1: five I have simple practices into place, or one of
Speaker 1: those five simple practices into place. I promise you, if
Speaker 1: you can hear my voice, it will make a difference.
Speaker 1: And if you feel like you have failed, and if
Speaker 1: you feel like He has stepped away from you, that
Speaker 1: you're somehow this creation or piece of art that he
Speaker 1: had looked at and said, I'm not sure there's anything
Speaker 1: else I can do with this one. I tell you
Speaker 1: with all the love I can muster, you're wrong. And
Speaker 1: you know what, You're probably going to fail again tomorrow
Speaker 1: and maybe even the day after that, and that will
Speaker 1: be okay too. That is how much this higher power
Speaker 1: loves you, deeply, personally, unconditionally. I know that that's true.
Speaker 1: God doesn't have boundaries the way you know we think. Well,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear from people the way I
Speaker 1: have heard from people through the years about Christmas Stars
Speaker 1: and thousands of stories have come in you can read.
Speaker 1: Many of those are Christmas dot Com. I hope to
Speaker 1: hear from people who are similarly affected by this little message.
Speaker 1: And again, even if you don't pick up the book,
Speaker 1: if the book isn't for you, I hope that I
Speaker 1: hope that this message today And Delilah, you're so you
Speaker 1: articulate this faith in such a beautiful way that is
Speaker 1: so accessible to everyone imaginable. Thank you for that. It's
Speaker 1: a gift. I hope that you know what a gift
Speaker 1: it is for you to talk about faith in a
Speaker 1: way that is so open to everyone. You know that
Speaker 1: you do have a gift, which I also believe comes
Speaker 1: from Heaven to articulate this message in ways that maybe
Speaker 1: not everyone can, and you do it better than most.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jason f Right. Go get his new book.
Speaker 1: Go get all of your books. How many do you
Speaker 1: have published? Now? How many in print? Eighteen? No, you
Speaker 1: got more than that. Well, you got a lot of
Speaker 1: articles too that have been published, hundreds of those. Go
Speaker 1: find those all? Find them all? Why not? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: watch if you haven't watched The Christmas Jar. It's a
Speaker 1: very sweet movie. It came out a few years ago.
Speaker 1: So well done and so sweet and so powerful. And
Speaker 1: then put a jar in your laundry room and join
Speaker 1: that movement. But first, go get his new book. Okay, Delilah,
Speaker 1: you're the best. Thank you so much for what you
Speaker 1: do in the world. You're a light. Thank you, so
Speaker 1: are you. Together we'll shine you know? Did you have
Speaker 1: you seen that. There's a little video going around where
Speaker 1: a young man takes two lighters tow bick lighters and
Speaker 1: shows they have equal flames, and then he drops one
Speaker 1: in a jar and pours water on it and says,
Speaker 1: every time life beats you up, you have a loss,
Speaker 1: you're divorced, your family abandons you. Until the bick lighter
Speaker 1: is covered with water, and then he pulls it out
Speaker 1: of the water and he tries to light it, and
Speaker 1: you can't because the spark is wet. And then he
Speaker 1: brings the other bick lighter and holds it next to
Speaker 1: it and lights it and reignites the flame. And he says,
Speaker 1: that's what we're to do to the people who are underwater,
Speaker 1: if you will, with life's troubles. And I think your
Speaker 1: book is that it's that coming alongside and reigniting the flame.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go look that up. Thank you, all right, God,
Speaker 1: bless you, thank you, Thank you. Bobby Hunt. Jason has
Speaker 1: been a guest speaker at many churches throughout the country,
Speaker 1: sharing motivational and inspirational messages. He has also done outreached
Speaker 1: to people temporarily without housing or in financial difficulties. Today,
Speaker 1: he and his family live in Woodstock, Virginia. He's also
Speaker 1: lived in Missouri, Illinois, Virginia, Oregon, in Utah, Germany, and Brazil.
Speaker 1: He's a believer in the human spirit and he's a
Speaker 1: true connector. Jason and his wife, Cody Ericsson Wright have
Speaker 1: a growing family of four children and now three grandchildren.
Speaker 1: They of spending time with His most recent book, Rise Today,
Speaker 1: that's been called an extended greeting card full of comfort,
Speaker 1: support and courage for anyone going through a difficult time,
Speaker 1: is available March seventh. I love it so much I've
Speaker 1: chosen it for my Delilah book Club pick for March.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely perfect for tucking into Easter baskets, or
Speaker 1: sending to your friends, to your family, to your daughter
Speaker 1: off at college, to neighbors, or maybe somebody you know
Speaker 1: who's facing a personal trial. The only thing more prolific
Speaker 1: about Jason than his writing is his abundance of faith
Speaker 1: and his generosity of spirit. A visit to his social
Speaker 1: media pages will always make you smile. It's a much
Speaker 1: better use of your time than doom scrolling. Trust. Beyond that, well,
Speaker 1: just about anything is a better use of your time
Speaker 1: really than scrolling. But being of service that is the
Speaker 1: absolute best. How might you share a little of yourself
Speaker 1: with the world. Jason suggests that we open a door,
Speaker 1: literally or figuratively for someone whenever possible. Is that something
Speaker 1: you can put your mind to. Our chat has been
Speaker 1: a great reminder for me. I know that I am
Speaker 1: so thrilled that Jason could join us today. It's been
Speaker 1: a few years, and even more so that you stop by.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll come back again and again. I'll share
Speaker 1: another great conversation in a couple more weeks, so drop in.
Speaker 1: Until then, remember to slow down and love someone