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That's Facet dot com. 32 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 4: This add a sponsored by Facet. Facet Wealth in Corporated 33 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 4: is an sec registered investment advisor. This is not an 34 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,759 Speaker 4: offer to buy your self securities, nor is it investment, 35 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 4: legal or tax advice. 36 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,959 Speaker 5: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 37 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,759 Speaker 5: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 38 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 39 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friend. 40 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 41 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 5: your life. Well, God bless you always a joy to 42 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 5: come into your homes. We love you and we know 43 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 5: God has great things in store. And if you're ever 44 00:02:03,040 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 5: in our area, I hope you'll stop buy and be 45 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 5: a part of one of our services. I promise you 46 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,800 Speaker 5: we'll make you feel right at home. Thanks for tuning in, 47 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 5: and thank you again for coming out today. And I 48 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 5: like to start with something funny. And I heard about 49 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,799 Speaker 5: this man. Somebody had stolen his wife's credit card, and 50 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 5: a couple of months later, the company called him said sir, 51 00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 5: we've got good news. 52 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:23,359 Speaker 3: We found the credit card. 53 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,239 Speaker 5: Without missing a beat, he said, tell the thief to 54 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:26,640 Speaker 5: keep it. 55 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 3: He spends less than my wife. 56 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 5: All right, hold up your Bible, say it like you 57 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 5: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says. 58 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:35,919 Speaker 1: I am. 59 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 3: I have what it says I have. I can do 60 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 3: what it says I can do. Today I will. 61 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 5: Be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My 62 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 5: mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never 63 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 5: be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I 64 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 5: want to talk to you today about enjoying the journey. 65 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,959 Speaker 5: Life is not really about the destination. It's about how 66 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 5: we live all along the way. And it's easy to 67 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 5: become so goal oriented and so focused on our dreams 68 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 5: that we overlook the simple things that we should be enjoying. 69 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 5: But we have to realize life is a journey. There's 70 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 5: no such thing as the finish line. Once you accomplish 71 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 5: this dream, God will give you another dream. When you 72 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 5: overcome this challenge, there'll be another challenge. There's always another 73 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,240 Speaker 5: mountain to climb. If we make the mistake of just 74 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 5: living for the destination, we'll look up one day and 75 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 5: realize we've missed out on the biggest part of life. 76 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 3: Because most of life is routine. 77 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 5: Most of us get up every morning, go to work, 78 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 5: come home, eat dinner, go to bed, and do it again. 79 00:03:48,520 --> 00:03:52,920 Speaker 5: There are very few mountaintops where you graduate from school, 80 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 5: or you get married, or have a child, or go 81 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:59,240 Speaker 5: on vacation. The high times are few and far between. 82 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:03,320 Speaker 5: But many people are living for the mountaintops. They're so 83 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 5: focused on their promotion that they work night and day. 84 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 5: They don't really enjoy their family. They're so stressed raising 85 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 5: their children. They don't enjoy their children. They're so caught 86 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 5: up in getting out of a problem. Their life goes 87 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 5: by in a blur. We've got to slow down and 88 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 5: learn to enjoy the journey. This is what I had 89 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 5: to do before I was married. I used to travel 90 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 5: overseas with my father a couple of times a year, 91 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 5: and I lived for those big trips. I couldn't wait. 92 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 5: I counted down the months, the weeks, hurried through the 93 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:39,559 Speaker 5: days trying to get to that trip. When one trip 94 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 5: was over, I'd immediately start looking forward to the next trip. 95 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:46,919 Speaker 5: One day I realized, I'm hurrying through life just trying 96 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 5: to get to my big events. Of course, it's good 97 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 5: to have things to look forward to. It's good to 98 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 5: have goals in front of you, but don't put your 99 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 5: life on hold until that happens. 100 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 3: Enjoy all. 101 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 5: Along the way, I heard Dion Sanders talking. He was 102 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 5: a star football player and his dream was to win 103 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 5: the Super Bowl. That's what he wanted more than anything else. 104 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 5: He trained and trained year after year, working tirelessly. One 105 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 5: day his dream came to pass. He won the Super Bowl. 106 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 5: He told that night. When he went home after the 107 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 5: big celebration, he was so disappointed. He thought, is this 108 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 5: all that it is? I've worked and reached the pinnacle 109 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 5: of my career, and I thought it would be different. Yes, 110 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 5: I'm happy, Yes God's blessed me, but it's just not 111 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 5: what I thought it would be. And sometimes we can 112 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 5: spend our whole life trying to reach a goal. Only 113 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 5: to find out it's not what it's all cracked up to. 114 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 5: Be friends, the real joy in life is in the 115 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 5: simple things. It's in being with your family, getting up 116 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 5: early and seeing the sunrise, taking a walk through the park, 117 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 5: taking your daughter on a date, going on a bike 118 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 5: ride with your spouse. The goals, the accomplishments, they bring 119 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 5: us a sense of satisfaction, but they're only temporary. You 120 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 5: can't live off your Super Bowls. You can't live off 121 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:13,080 Speaker 5: your big events, because after you savor them for a moment, 122 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 5: God's going to birth a new dream in your heart, 123 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 5: something new to look forward to. And I've talked to 124 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 5: a lot of people that have made it to the 125 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 5: very top in their field. The one common regret I 126 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:27,320 Speaker 5: seem to hear is that they did it at the 127 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 5: expense of their family. They say, Joel, if I could 128 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 5: do it over again, I would take time to stop 129 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 5: and smell the roses. I would be there at my 130 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 5: children's Little League games. I would take more walks through 131 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,039 Speaker 5: the park with my spouse. I wouldn't live so stressed 132 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 5: and uptight, thinking if I can just get to the 133 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 5: next level, then I'll slow down and enjoy my life. 134 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 5: No slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take 135 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,080 Speaker 5: time for the people God's put in your life. They're 136 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,360 Speaker 5: not always going to be there, the scripture says in James, 137 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:04,719 Speaker 5: our life is like a mist. We're here for a 138 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 5: moment and then we're gone. Every day we should tell 139 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 5: our spouse, our children, the people that mean the most 140 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,600 Speaker 5: to us, how much we love them. I told Victoria 141 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 5: the other day how much I appreciate her coming and listening. 142 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 3: To me speak every service. 143 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 5: A while back, we were out of town holding services. 144 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 5: Then we came back and did the three services on 145 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 5: the weekend, and I figured up she had heard my 146 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 5: same message that week eight times in a row. 147 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 3: Listen after eight times, I'm even tired of it. 148 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 5: But she sits there three services a week and she 149 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 5: laughs at my same jokes like it's the first time 150 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 5: she ever heard them. And I know she's faking it, 151 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 5: but at least she's faking it to make me feel good. 152 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 5: I don't take that for granted. Make sure the people 153 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 5: in your life know how much you appreciate them sacrificing 154 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,640 Speaker 5: and being behind you. After all, you wouldn't be where 155 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 5: you were if somebody wasn't paying the price to get 156 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 5: you further down the road. I think about my mother 157 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 5: every service. When I'm up here, I can hear her 158 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 5: agging me on right there on the front road under 159 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 5: her breast. She's constantly whispering, that's good, Joel. Doesn't matter 160 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 5: what I'm talking about. I'm her son. She thinks everything 161 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 5: I say is good. I can say, you may be seated. 162 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:26,640 Speaker 3: All that's excellent today, Joel. 163 00:08:28,320 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 5: But I realize I wouldn't be where I am today 164 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 5: without the people that have sown into my life. Now, 165 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 5: I'm not going to take for granted those who are 166 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 5: closest to me, my family, my friends, my coworkers that 167 00:08:42,160 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 5: are making sacrifices so I can fulfill what God's put 168 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,600 Speaker 5: in my life in my heart. A lot of people 169 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 5: today they're making a living, but they're not really making 170 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:56,480 Speaker 5: a life. They're working all the time, living, stressed out, 171 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 5: bringing the tension home, too busy to enjoy. 172 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 3: What God's given them. 173 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 5: We have to understand when we come to the end 174 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,880 Speaker 5: of our life, most likely there will still be work 175 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:09,320 Speaker 5: to do. 176 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:10,120 Speaker 3: At the office. 177 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:13,880 Speaker 5: Your inbox will still be full. It's never going to 178 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 5: be all done. And if we don't make our family 179 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,080 Speaker 5: and those that we love a high priority, to enjoy, 180 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,560 Speaker 5: to spend time with, to invest in. Then we'll end 181 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,880 Speaker 5: up missing out on the thing that matters most, Because 182 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:30,720 Speaker 5: in your final days here on this earth, the job 183 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 5: won't keep your company, your family will. But if you 184 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:38,079 Speaker 5: spend all your time just investing in a career, giving 185 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 5: the best of your life and energy to build a business, 186 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,079 Speaker 5: then your lack of investment in what matters most your 187 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,959 Speaker 5: family could leave you a very lonely person. And it's 188 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 5: good to be focused and driven, it's good to be 189 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 5: a hard worker, but you've got to know how to 190 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 5: walk away and say, you know what, this work is 191 00:09:57,280 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 5: still going to be at the office tomorrow when I 192 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 5: show up. So I'm gonna be my best today. I'm 193 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 5: gonna work hard, but i'm gonna play hard. I'm gonna 194 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 5: enjoy my family. I'm gonna have fun with my children. 195 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,440 Speaker 5: If you don't make this decision, then your family will 196 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 5: always only get your leftover time and leftover energy. They 197 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 5: deserve better than that. Don't take the stress from the 198 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,800 Speaker 5: office home to where you show up the whole house 199 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 5: tenses up. Don't let how somebody treated you or what 200 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 5: you didn't get done sour your day to where you 201 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 5: take it out on your family, leave that outside the home. 202 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 5: I don't know about you, but I would rather make 203 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:39,560 Speaker 5: less money and be able to enjoy my life and 204 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:42,960 Speaker 5: enjoy my family than to be so overwork that I 205 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:47,360 Speaker 5: never have any extra energy. There are plenty of opportunities 206 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 5: I say no to because I don't want my life 207 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 5: to go by in a blur. I don't want my 208 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,640 Speaker 5: children to grow up without knowing me. I don't want 209 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 5: to be so busy that I can't come home and 210 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 5: work out, or take a walk through the park, or 211 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 5: stay up and look at the stars, or get up 212 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 5: early and hear the birds singing. You got to realize 213 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 5: I'm a very goal oriented, disciplined person. I've got to 214 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:12,800 Speaker 5: do just what I'm asking you to do. I trained 215 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 5: myself to slow down and enjoy the journey. I read 216 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:20,080 Speaker 5: about Frank Lloyd Wright. He was a famous architect, and 217 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 5: when he was a young man in his early teens, 218 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 5: he was walking through a snow covered field with his uncle. 219 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 5: They were headed to a house up in front of them, 220 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 5: but along the way Frank veered off and stopped by 221 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 5: the barn to see the animals. Then he went over 222 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 5: to the pond and took a look at that, and 223 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 5: then he saw fort off in the distance that they 224 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:42,480 Speaker 5: had built. He went out of his way and went 225 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 5: and saw that. When he finally caught up with his 226 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:49,800 Speaker 5: uncle way across the snow covered field, his uncle said, now, Frank, 227 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 5: I want to teach you a lesson. Look back at 228 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:57,200 Speaker 5: our footsteps in the snow. Mine came straight here. I 229 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 5: never ventured off, and I got here much. 230 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 3: Quicker than you. But Frank, look at yours. 231 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 5: You zigzagged all over the place, wasted so much time 232 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 5: stopping all along the way. Frank Lloyd Wright said that 233 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 5: was one of the best lessons he ever learned, but 234 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:12,679 Speaker 5: he took it. 235 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 3: Just the opposite. 236 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,360 Speaker 5: His philosophy was, I still got to where I was going, 237 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 5: but I enjoyed all the sights along the way. And 238 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:26,680 Speaker 5: in life there will always be a balance between working hard, 239 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 5: being focused, accomplishing dreams, and taking time to stop and 240 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 5: smell the roses. 241 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 3: Some of you today you don't zigzag enough. 242 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 5: You need to start venturing off here and there and 243 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 5: appreciating and enjoying the great things God's placed in your life. 244 00:12:44,120 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 3: You're all working no fun. 245 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 5: But if you would change your approach and slow down 246 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 5: and enjoy the journey. You will not only still get 247 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,600 Speaker 5: to where you're supposed to be, but your life will 248 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 5: be so much more fulfilled now. I learned a lot 249 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:01,679 Speaker 5: of this from Victorious side of the family. They loved 250 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 5: to laugh, They love to have fun. They enjoy each other. 251 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 5: At dinner, they can sit there and talk for hours. 252 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,080 Speaker 5: My personality is I can eat in ten minutes and 253 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:13,679 Speaker 5: I'm done. 254 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 3: Let's get busy, Let's go do something. We got goals, 255 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 3: we got dreams. 256 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,120 Speaker 5: The other day, Victorian, her mom and brother and some 257 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 5: of the family came over after church and we had 258 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 5: a late lunch. And after I got through eating, I 259 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,319 Speaker 5: went to the back and watched the football game. Two 260 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 5: and a half hours later, I came back out and 261 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 5: they were still sitting at the table in the same seats, laughing, talking. 262 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 3: Having fun. 263 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 5: I was so amazed. I said to Victoria, what are 264 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:45,200 Speaker 5: y'all talking about? She said, oh, nothing. Let me tell you, 265 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 5: they can talk about nothing better than anybody I know. 266 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:52,080 Speaker 3: Why is that they enjoy each other. 267 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 5: They've taught me how to take time to smell the roses. 268 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 3: Think about this. God gives us a sunrise every morning. 269 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:04,680 Speaker 5: Do you ever enjoy it? He gives us stars every night? 270 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 5: Do you ever look up and appreciate it? Maybe you 271 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 5: have your mom and dad living close by, do you 272 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,960 Speaker 5: ever stop by and spend time. Do you ever call 273 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 5: them and talk about nothing? Many of us, God is 274 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,280 Speaker 5: blessed with beautiful children. Do you enjoy them? Or are 275 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 5: you so busy raising them and cooking their dinner and 276 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:26,640 Speaker 5: making sure they're doing their homework and making sure they're 277 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 5: cleaning their room that you don't really appreciate the gift 278 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 5: that God has given you. I know people that love 279 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,480 Speaker 5: their children, no doubt about it, but they don't really 280 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 5: enjoy their children. They let the pressures of raising them 281 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 5: rob them of what they have to offer. When our 282 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 5: daughter Alexandra was about three years old, she used to 283 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 5: wake up at night and come down the stairs and 284 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 5: come into our room. Of course we'd have to get 285 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 5: up and take her back to bed. For a period 286 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 5: of three or four months, she was waking up two 287 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:59,320 Speaker 5: or three times a night and coming down. This was 288 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 5: not long as I took over from my father and 289 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 5: started pastoring, so I was learning to minister, and there 290 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 5: was a lot of stress and changes just with that. 291 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 3: And now I wasn't getting that much sleep. 292 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 5: And one time I was telling Victoria, we just got 293 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 5: to do something about Alexander. She's coming down so much, 294 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 5: and you know, I'm just so tired, and I'm not 295 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 5: getting out of sleep. On and on, Victoria said something 296 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 5: I'll never forget. She said, Joel, just remember, twenty years 297 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,840 Speaker 5: from now, you'll give anything to hear those little footsteps 298 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 5: coming down the stairs. You'll give anything to have her 299 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 5: wanting to come into your room. That changed my whole perspective. 300 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 5: I started looking forward to it. I started treasuring those 301 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 5: moments that we could spend together. Your children may be 302 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 5: a lot of work right now, but make sure you're 303 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 5: enjoying them. They're not always going to be there in 304 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 5: the house with you. I heard doctor ed Young tell 305 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 5: about something that happened with his son. Doctor Young is 306 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 5: a good friend of ours and great leader pastor of 307 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 5: Second Baptist Church here in town. When doctor Young was 308 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 5: the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, he received an 309 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 5: invitation to go to the White House and have a 310 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 5: personal meeting with the president. 311 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 3: It was a big deal. He was very excited about it. 312 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 5: But his son's basketball team won their division and they 313 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 5: kept it advancing and It just so happened that the 314 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 5: state championship was on the same day he was supposed 315 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,360 Speaker 5: to go to Washington, So he had to decide was 316 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 5: he going to stay and see his son or where 317 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,920 Speaker 5: was he going to go and see the president. I'm 318 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 5: sure he could have thought, well, I can watch the 319 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:39,239 Speaker 5: game later by video, I can call and get updates. 320 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,560 Speaker 5: I can probably hear it on the radio. Now, Doctor 321 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 5: Young didn't think twice. He had his staff and formed 322 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 5: the President's office that he would not be able to attend. 323 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,400 Speaker 5: He went to his son's game, and it was very exciting, 324 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 5: very close. 325 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 3: The score kept going back and forth. Toward the end 326 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 3: of the game. 327 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,200 Speaker 5: His son's team was down by one point, look like 328 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:05,080 Speaker 5: they'd come up short, but in the final seconds, his 329 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:07,919 Speaker 5: son hit the game winning shot and they won the 330 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:08,960 Speaker 5: state championship. 331 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 3: Doctor Young said, I. 332 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 5: Would not have traded that moment for anything in the world, 333 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 5: not even a meeting with the president. Friends, we have 334 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 5: to realize some things we cannot get back. Our children 335 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,760 Speaker 5: will only be this age once. Take time for the 336 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,639 Speaker 5: people in your life. Don't rush out of the house 337 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,199 Speaker 5: without giving your spouse a hug. Don't be so busy 338 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 5: that you can't go on the date that you. 339 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 3: Promised your little daughter. 340 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 5: Don't come home so tired that you can't go to 341 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 5: the park and watch your teenage son skateboard. 342 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:46,080 Speaker 3: Make memories together. 343 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,119 Speaker 5: Twenty years from now, we're going to look back and say, 344 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 5: those were the good old days. You remember when you 345 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 5: hit the game winning shot. You remember when I used 346 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,320 Speaker 5: to go to the park and chase you around. You 347 00:17:57,359 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 5: remember when we used to sit around the dinner table 348 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,639 Speaker 5: and laugh and tell stories. Friends, we are living in 349 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:04,719 Speaker 5: the good old days. 350 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:08,520 Speaker 3: Don't take it for granted. Your family needs what you have. 351 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:13,880 Speaker 5: They need your smile, your encouragement, your support, your wisdom. 352 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 5: They need to know that you care and that they 353 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 5: mean the world to you. And it's important not to 354 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 5: just be in the house. Don't just show up, be involved, 355 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:27,399 Speaker 5: be engaged. Heard somebody say it's not the time we 356 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 5: spend together that really matters, it's the moments we ignite 357 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,159 Speaker 5: to make a memory. Now. I know plenty of people 358 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 5: that are living in a house full of family, but 359 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:42,880 Speaker 5: they're very lonely. Everybody is busy, everybody's doing their own thing. 360 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,920 Speaker 5: Nobody is stepping up to say, you know what, we're 361 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:49,120 Speaker 5: gonna be a family. We're gonna take time to sit 362 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 5: together at the dinner table and see. 363 00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 3: How we're doing. 364 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,280 Speaker 5: We're gonna go to the ballgame or to the dance 365 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 5: recital and cheer that other person on. We're gonna lift 366 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 5: each other up when we're falling. We're gonna end joy 367 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 5: what God has given us. See it's easy to be 368 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 5: too busy, it's easy to become disengaged. But if you 369 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 5: want to get the most out of life, you gotta 370 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 5: draw the line in the sand and say, I'm gonna 371 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 5: slow down and enjoy the journey. I'm not gonna take 372 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 5: for granted what God has given me. I'm not gonna 373 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,800 Speaker 5: be a workaholic and not see my children grow up. 374 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 5: I'm not gonna live so stressed out that I can't 375 00:19:25,040 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 5: appreciate the simple things in life. A few years ago, 376 00:19:29,480 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 5: I was rounding everybody up at our house to leave. 377 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:35,040 Speaker 5: We were headed to church, and we were running late, 378 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 5: and I was in a big hurry, all stressed out 379 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 5: about it. And our son Jonathan was about eight years old. 380 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 5: Somebody had given us a label maker, one of those 381 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,159 Speaker 5: little machines that you can type a message and it'll 382 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 5: print out a little label that you can stick on somewhere. 383 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:52,639 Speaker 5: Jonathan was there by the back door and he was 384 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 5: typing in a message. I said, Jonathan, you gotta put 385 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 5: that up. 386 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:57,800 Speaker 3: We're late. We gotta go right now. 387 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 5: He said, hang on, Dad, I just need another minute 388 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:02,919 Speaker 5: to another second. I said, Jonathan, we don't have another second. 389 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 5: We're not going to get to church in time. You 390 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,720 Speaker 5: got to put it up. I was getting more and 391 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,679 Speaker 5: more stressed out about that time. He printed out the 392 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 5: message and handed it to me. It said, you're the 393 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,720 Speaker 5: best dad in the world. I thought, well, maybe we 394 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 5: can stay here a little longer, print out a few 395 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,960 Speaker 5: more of those. But sometimes we get so caught up 396 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 5: in our goals and so focused on the end result 397 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 5: that we missed the miracles all along the way. Take 398 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 5: time to smell the roses, enjoy the different personalities God's 399 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 5: put in your life. I found it's the simple things 400 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 5: that mean the most to us. You don't have to 401 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 5: take an expensive vacation to make a memory. You can 402 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 5: make a memory sitting at the dinner table. You can 403 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 5: make a memory watching your children play in the backyard, 404 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 5: getting up early with your spouse and taking in a 405 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 5: beautiful sunrise. Some of my best memories growing up were 406 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 5: when all of us kids there were five of us, 407 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 5: would sit with my father early in the morning and 408 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 5: drink coffee by the fire. When my father would take 409 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 5: his first sip of coffee, he would always. 410 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:15,360 Speaker 3: Let out a long ah. 411 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,000 Speaker 5: All of us kids from four to fourteen would do 412 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:21,600 Speaker 5: the same thing. We'd have a contest to see who 413 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 5: could do the best. Odd We'd sit there and laugh 414 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 5: and have fun together. My brother Paul tells how he 415 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 5: and his children still get up today and drink coffee 416 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 5: early in the morning, sip it and say they're odds. 417 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 5: I don't drink coffee anymore. I'm a little bit holier 418 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 5: than he is. But growing up, we didn't have a 419 00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 5: lot of money, but my parents were very innovative. We 420 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 5: lived close to the big airport, and a couple of 421 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 5: nights a month when it wasn't busy, they would take 422 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:55,199 Speaker 5: us up to the airport and we would ride the 423 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 5: train together. 424 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 3: That was free. 425 00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 5: We loved it. You would have thought they would take 426 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,880 Speaker 5: us to an amusement park. We would go back and 427 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 5: forth between Terminal A and Terminal B for an hour 428 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:10,439 Speaker 5: or two. I'm sure people thought that family is so lost. 429 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 5: They don't know what they're doing. Oh, you know what 430 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,560 Speaker 5: we were doing. We were making a memory. We were 431 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,760 Speaker 5: having fun together as a family. It's not how expensive 432 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,479 Speaker 5: it is or how exciting it is. 433 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 3: Life is all about what we make it. 434 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,840 Speaker 5: When our children were younger, we took them to disney Land, 435 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 5: and Alexandra was about five years old, I would guess, 436 00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:34,160 Speaker 5: And it was very much a struggle getting there that day. 437 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 3: There was a lot of traffic. 438 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 5: And we were in the rental car and hard finding 439 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 5: a place to park, and a long line to get 440 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,479 Speaker 5: on the tram to catch it to the park, and 441 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,480 Speaker 5: by the time we got in the park, I was 442 00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 5: very stressed out. We weren't there fifteen minutes until little 443 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 5: Alexandra said, Daddy, I want to go back to the 444 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 5: hotel and go swimming. 445 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 3: I said no, no, no, Alexandra. We can swim anywhere. 446 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,000 Speaker 3: We can swim at home. We're at Disneyland. 447 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 5: She said, Daddy, I don't want to be at Disneyland. 448 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 3: I want to go swimming. 449 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 5: I said, no, Alexandra, we may see Mickey Mouse. We're 450 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 5: gonna go find snow White. We're gonna have so much fun. 451 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 5: She said, I don't want. 452 00:23:12,480 --> 00:23:15,920 Speaker 3: To have fun here. I finally had to say, listen, Alexandra. 453 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,360 Speaker 5: I've paid fifty bucks for your ticket. 454 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,399 Speaker 3: You're gonna have fun whether you like it or not. 455 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 3: What am I saying? It doesn't take a lot of 456 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 3: money to have fun. 457 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 5: Many times it's the simple things that we remember the most. 458 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,840 Speaker 5: I heard about this man that was a huge baseball fan. 459 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 5: For his son's eighth birthday, he bought him a baseball 460 00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:42,560 Speaker 5: that was autographed by all of the New York Yankees 461 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 5: they had just won the World Series. Paid a lot 462 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 5: of money for it, and he was sure his son 463 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 5: would treasure it for years to come. But when he 464 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 5: gave the ball to his son, his son wasn't excited 465 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 5: about it at all. In fact, he just looked at 466 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 5: it and put it off to the site. The dad 467 00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:01,600 Speaker 5: was so disappointed, he said, son, don't you like the ball? 468 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,199 Speaker 5: His son says, yes, Dad, but I'd like it a 469 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:09,400 Speaker 5: lot better if somebody hadn't written all these names on it. Friends, 470 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 5: we've got to learn to enjoy the simple things in life. 471 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 5: Today everything is so complicated. We have five hundred channels 472 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:22,879 Speaker 5: on TV, the internet, cell phones, PDAs. Everywhere you look, 473 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 5: there's something to do, some kind of entertainment if we're 474 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 5: not careful, we'll fall into the trap of thinking that 475 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,440 Speaker 5: we've always got to be busy. 476 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 3: We can't have fun. 477 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 5: We can't enjoy our life unless we're doing something big 478 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 5: and exciting. So slow down and enjoy the simple things. 479 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,120 Speaker 5: Turn off the TV and spend more time with your family. 480 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 5: Take a walk, go for a bike ride, play games 481 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 5: together that doesn't cost anything. Growing up, we used to 482 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,120 Speaker 5: play hide and go seek as a family. My mom 483 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 5: and dad would chase us all through the house. It's 484 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,840 Speaker 5: one of the highlights of my day. My favorite memory 485 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 5: is with my sister leaves so got stuck in the dryer. 486 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 5: Thank god we had it on permanent press. But it's 487 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:11,040 Speaker 5: not about what we have or don't have. Life is 488 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:13,920 Speaker 5: all about what we make it. You can have all 489 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:16,199 Speaker 5: the money in the world and not be happy and 490 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 5: enjoying life. Plus you can have very little and be 491 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 5: just as satisfied and fulfilled as you can be. 492 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:23,880 Speaker 3: It's all in our approach. 493 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:24,399 Speaker 1: Now. 494 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 3: I read about this family that was very wealthy. 495 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 5: The father wanted to show his seven year old son 496 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:34,160 Speaker 5: how the quote poor people live, and so he left 497 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 5: the big home in the city and they drove to 498 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,280 Speaker 5: a little farm in the country where this family they 499 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,199 Speaker 5: knew was and they spent the night with them. And 500 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 5: it's just a little frame wood house and didn't have 501 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 5: any TV, no fancy furniture, no carpet. And at night 502 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 5: this family, since there was no entertainment inside, they would 503 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 5: go out on the front porch and sing and laugh 504 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 5: and tell stories together. After being there a night or two, 505 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 5: the father and son headed back home. The father was 506 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 5: very curious as to if his son had learned his lesson, 507 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 5: and he asked him how he liked it. Little boy said, oh, Dad, 508 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 5: I really loved it. He said, well, son, do you 509 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,439 Speaker 5: see how poor people can be? 510 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 3: And the son said, yes, Dad, I did. 511 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,960 Speaker 5: He said, well, son, tell me what exactly did you learn. 512 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:22,720 Speaker 5: The little boy said, well, Dad, I learned that we 513 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 5: have one dog at home and they have four. We 514 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,800 Speaker 5: have a swimming pool in the middle of our backyard, 515 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,879 Speaker 5: but they have a stream with no end. We have 516 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 5: fancy lanterns on our house, but they have the stars. 517 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 5: We watched TV by ourselves at night, but they sit 518 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 5: around as. 519 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 3: A family and have fun. His dad was shaking his head. 520 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:43,720 Speaker 3: He knew it had backfired. 521 00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,600 Speaker 5: About that time, the son said, Dad, thank you. So 522 00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 5: much for showing me how poor we really are. 523 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 3: Friends. 524 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,880 Speaker 5: If you have people in your life to love, you're rich. 525 00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 5: If you have your health, you're rich. If you can 526 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:04,200 Speaker 5: hear your little girl old footsteps coming down the stairs, 527 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,360 Speaker 5: you're rich. If you can talk with your family about nothing, 528 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,080 Speaker 5: you're rich. Keep the right perspective, slow down and enjoy 529 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 5: the simple things in life. Take more walks through the park, 530 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,400 Speaker 5: look at the stars at night. Think about God's goodness 531 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 5: when you get up in the morning. Don't just drink 532 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 5: your coffee, sip it and say ah, make a memory, 533 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 5: ignite that moment. I'm asking us today to slow down 534 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:33,919 Speaker 5: and enjoy the journey. There will always be another dream, 535 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,800 Speaker 5: another goal, another challenge. Take time for what matters most. 536 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,159 Speaker 5: Some of you are so focused and driven, so busy 537 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,840 Speaker 5: with what you have to do each day, you're missing 538 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,159 Speaker 5: the miracles all along the way. You need to do 539 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 5: like Frank Lloyd Wright and start zigzagging. Start enjoying the 540 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,080 Speaker 5: different things that God has put in your life. I 541 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 5: heard somebody say, it's not that life is so short, 542 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:02,120 Speaker 5: it's that we wait so long to begin. Why don't 543 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,199 Speaker 5: you begin today? Take time to smell the roses, appreciate 544 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,040 Speaker 5: the people in your life. Hug your children before you 545 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 5: leave each day, give your spouse a kiss, Call your 546 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 5: parents and tell them how much you love them. Go 547 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 5: visit those relatives you've been meaning to. Life is short, 548 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,880 Speaker 5: We're not always going to be here, and it's good 549 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:21,879 Speaker 5: to work hard, but you've got to learn how to 550 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 5: turn it off, stay in balance and play hard as well. 551 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 3: We're living in the good old days. 552 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 5: If you'll make this decision that you're gonna slow down 553 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 5: and enjoy the journey, then you will experience the fullness 554 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 5: of what God has in store. When you come to 555 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 5: the end of your life, you'll have no regrets. You'll 556 00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 5: be able to say I made the most of my life. 557 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 5: I enjoyed my family, I enjoyed my friends. I finished 558 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 5: my course with joy. 559 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 3: Amen. Do you receive that today? 560 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,480 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 561 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 562 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? 563 00:28:56,080 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 5: Just say, Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come 564 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:05,520 Speaker 5: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 565 00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 5: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 566 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,160 Speaker 5: born again. Get in a good Bible based church. Keep 567 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 5: God in first place. 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