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Speaker 1: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 2: How many of you guys know that sometimes the smallest

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Speaker 2: thing can just irritate you, things that really don't matter

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Speaker 2: in the long run.

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Speaker 3: I was with a.

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Speaker 2: Girlfriend of mine several years ago and she was showing

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Speaker 2: me her vacation photos. I hate to date this, but

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Speaker 2: it's when we used to go get them at Walgreens.

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Speaker 2: She said, I just picked up my vacation photos.

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Speaker 3: Let's look at them.

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Speaker 2: So I said, okay, And so we began to look

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Speaker 2: at this beautiful of pictures of blue skies, sandy beaches,

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Speaker 2: all these cute.

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Speaker 3: Little shops at the port, just so much fun.

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Speaker 2: And we're looking and I noticed she was getting a

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Speaker 2: little more irritated, and she was going through the pictures

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Speaker 2: more quickly, and I was like, okay, okay, you know,

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Speaker 2: I was gonna kind of really check them out and

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Speaker 2: talk about it. Then all of a sudden, I noticed

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Speaker 2: she began to say, I look terrible in that picture.

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Speaker 2: I don't like that picture. I'm not wearing that outfit again.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't photograph well. And she began to pick herself

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Speaker 2: apart in these pictures. See it went from enjoying her

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Speaker 2: vacation to looking at something about herself that I couldn't

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Speaker 2: even see. You see, sometimes we forget the big picture.

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Speaker 3: We forget to look at the.

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Speaker 2: Blue skies, the sandy beaches, the smiling faces our children,

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Speaker 2: because we see that speck on the picture, and that's

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Speaker 2: all we focus on. You see, her memory all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden became negative.

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Speaker 3: Think about Adam and Eve.

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Speaker 2: They were in a beautiful garden, lush green garden. They

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Speaker 2: had fruit everywhere, they could eat all they want, never

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Speaker 2: gained anyway, no laundry.

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Speaker 3: They were in this amazing, God given garden.

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Speaker 2: And one day Eve got her eye on a single bush,

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Speaker 2: a single bush in the garden, the only bush she

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Speaker 2: was asked not to touch. And that day that bush

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Speaker 2: became the biggest thing that she saw.

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Speaker 3: In fact, that bush was so big it distorted the

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Speaker 3: whole view of the garden. You see, that bush was

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Speaker 3: a speck on the picture.

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Speaker 2: She didn't see the whole picture because all she could see.

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Speaker 3: Is what she didn't have. Listen, don't see the specs

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Speaker 3: in our life. Let's begin to see the whole picture

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Speaker 3: what we do have.

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Speaker 2: Let's don't let a bush to start this amazing life.

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Speaker 2: God has given us the relationships that we have, because

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Speaker 2: in the long run, it really doesn't matter. I think

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Speaker 2: we could all say if we step back, that we've

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Speaker 2: seen some specs that mess some things up for us.

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Speaker 2: We've seen we've focused on some things that we didn't have,

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Speaker 2: and we forgot to see all the great things that

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Speaker 2: we do have.

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Speaker 3: Listen, I don't want to live in regret to you.

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Speaker 2: I want to enjoy what God has given me right now,

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Speaker 2: the beauty of the moment.

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Speaker 3: I think about my friend and today.

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Speaker 2: I bet if she pulls those same pictures out, she's

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Speaker 2: gonna go I look pretty good in those pictures, you know,

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Speaker 2: sometimes when the years go, goh, you don't look as

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Speaker 2: bad as she thought you did. When my kids were

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Speaker 2: very we were at the old building and it was

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Speaker 2: the Easter Sunday and everyone was dressed up. You know,

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Speaker 2: all the family was there, the cousins, the aunts, the uncles,

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Speaker 2: you know, the grandmothers.

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Speaker 3: Everyone was there and looking so good.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: We were all there together, and I remember thinking, I

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Speaker 2: want to get a Easter picture. Everybody's so cute, all

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Speaker 2: the little outfits the kids had on. And about the

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Speaker 2: time we could round everybody up to get this Easter picture,

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Speaker 2: we're placing everybody. I look and there's my two little kids.

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Speaker 2: They had changed out of their Easter clothes.

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Speaker 3: And put on their play clothes.

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Speaker 2: They're standing there with some shorts and a raggyo T

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Speaker 2: shirt and some tennis shoes, and I'm like looking at them,

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Speaker 2: and it was enough just getting everyone rounded up. There

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Speaker 2: wasn't time for me to go change them and bring

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Speaker 2: them back. And I remember thinking, I am so frustrated,

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Speaker 2: you see, because I wanted this picture to be perfect.

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Speaker 3: It had to be my way. It was my picture.

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Speaker 3: Let me tell you what that picture.

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Speaker 2: It's one of my most treasured possessions today, one of

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Speaker 2: my most treasured possessions.

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Speaker 3: But at the.

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Speaker 2: Time, all I saw were those khaki shorts and tennis

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Speaker 2: shoes and green T shirt that I did.

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Speaker 3: Not want in my picture.

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Speaker 2: See, we need to step back, We need to remember

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Speaker 2: what life is about.

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Speaker 3: It's about God's goodness, it's about our family.

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Speaker 2: It's about the big picture. So often we want it

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Speaker 2: to be perfect. We want it to go our way,

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Speaker 2: and when it slightly takes a curve, it messes everything up.

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Speaker 3: That's not the case. It really doesn't mess everything up.

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Speaker 3: And we've got to remember.

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Speaker 2: You see my little kids, they had no idea, They

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Speaker 2: had no idea.

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Speaker 3: They're just kids, you see.

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Speaker 2: I would rather have a good relationship with my kids

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Speaker 2: than to be all upset with them. Let me tell

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Speaker 2: you what they're in college now. I would give anything

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Speaker 2: to just have a picture with them today.

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't care what they're wearing. I really don't.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever wanted things so perfect and it didn't

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Speaker 2: go your way? I know a lot of mothers can

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Speaker 2: relate to this. We want our kids' birthday.

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Speaker 3: Parties to be spectacular.

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Speaker 2: We want Spider Man there on time. We want the

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Speaker 2: princes coming with the right clothes on. We want everything perfect.

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Speaker 3: We get so.

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Speaker 2: Uptight planning, in anticipating, we forget who we're celebrating. We

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Speaker 2: don't even relax and realize, this is my child's birthday.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to enjoy this birthday party and celebrate them. Listen,

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Speaker 2: everything doesn't have to be perfect before you enjoy your life.

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Speaker 2: Let's don't look at the spec Let's step back and

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Speaker 2: see the big picture. This holiday season, we're all busy,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot going on. Let's make memories that will

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Speaker 2: last and that we can enjoy for a lifetime.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, that's so good.

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Speaker 2: Crazy Jesus, we are going to see the big picture.

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