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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to
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you always a joy to come into your homes. We
love you and we know God has great things in store.
And if you're ever in our area, I hope you'll
stop by and be a part of one of our services.
I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.
Thanks for tuning in and thank you again for coming
out today. And I like to start with something funny.
And I heard about this man. Somebody had stolen his
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wife's credit card. A couple of months later, the company
called him and said, sir, we've got good news.
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We found the credit card.
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Without missing a beat, he said, tell the thief to
keep it.
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He spends less than my wife.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
All right, say it like you mean it. This is
my Bible. I am what it says I am. I
have what it says I have. I can do what
it says I can do. Today I will be taught
the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert,
my heart is receptive.
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I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God
bless you.
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I want to talk to you today about enjoying the journey.
Life is not really about the destination. It's about how
we live all along the way. And it's easy to
become so goal oriented and so focused on our dreams
that we overlook the simple things that we should be enjoying.
But we have to realize life is a journey. There's
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no such thing as the finish line. Once you accomplish
this dream, God will give you another dream. When you
overcome this challenge, there'll be another challenge. There's always another
mountain to climb.
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If we make the.
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Mistake of just living for the destination, we'll look up
one day and realize we've missed out on the biggest
part of life. Because most of life is routine. Most
of us get up every morning, go to work, come home,
eat dinner, go to bed, and do it again. There
are very few mountaintops where you graduate from school, or
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you get married, or have a child, or go on vacation.
The high times are few and far between, but many
people are living for the mountaintops. They're so focused on
their promotion that they work night and day.
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They don't really enjoy their family.
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They're so stressed raising their children, they don't enjoy their children.
They're so caught up in getting out of a problem.
Their life goes by in a blur. We've got to
slow down and learn to enjoy the journey. This is
what I had to do before I was married. I
used to travel overseas with my father a couple of
times a year, and I lived for those big trips.
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I couldn't wait.
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I counted down the months, the weeks, hurried through the
days trying to get to that trip. When one trip
was over, I'd immediately start looking forward to the next trip.
One day I realized, I'm hurrying through life, just trying
to get to my big events. Of course, it's good
to have things to look forward to. It's good to
have goals in front of you, but don't put your
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life on hold until that happens. Enjoy all along the way.
I heard Dion Sanders talking. He was a star football
player and his dream was to win the Super Bowl.
That's what he wanted more than anything else. He trained
and trained year after year, working tirelessly.
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One day his dream came to pass. He won the
Super Bowl.
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He told that night, when he went home after the
big celebration, he was so disappointed.
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He thought, is this all that it is?
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I've worked and reached the pinnacle of my career, and
I thought it would be different. Yes, I'm happy, Yes
God's blessed me, but it's just not what I thought
it would be. And sometimes we can spend our whole
life trying to reach a goal, only to find out
it's not what it's all cracked up to. Be friends,
the real joy in life is in the simple things.
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It's in being with your family, getting up early and
seeing the sunrise, taking a walk through the park, taking
your daughter on a day, going on a bike ride
with your spouse. Sure, the goals, the accomplishments, they bring
us a sense of satisfaction, but they're only temporary. You
can't live off your Super Bowls. You can't live off
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your big events, because after you savor them for a moment,
God's going to birth a new dream in your heart,
something new to look forward to. And I've talked to
a lot of people that have made it to the
very top in their field, The one common regret I
seem to hear is that they did it at the
expense of their family. They say, Joel, if I could
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do it over again, I would take time to stop
and smell the roses. I would be there at my
children's Little League games. I would take more walks through
the park with my spouse. I wouldn't live so stressed
and uptight, thinking if I can just get to the
next level, then I'll slow down and enjoy my life. No,
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slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time
for the people God's put in your life. They're not
always going to be there, the scripture says in James,
our life is like a mist. We're here for a
moment and then we're gone. Every day we should tell
our spouse, our children, the people that mean the most
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to us, how much we love them. I told Victoria
the other day how much I appreciate her coming and
listening to me speak every service. A while back, we
were out of town holding services. Then we came back
and did the three services on the weekend, and I
figured up she had heard my same message that week
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eight times in a row. Listen after eight times, I'm
even tired of it. But she sits there three services
a week and she laughs at my same jokes like
it's the first time she ever heard them. And I
know she's faking it, but at least she's faking it
to make me feel good. I don't take that for granted.
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Make sure the people in your life know how much
you appreciate them sacrificing and being behind you. After all,
you wouldn't be where you were if somebody wasn't paying
the price to get you further down the road. I
think about my mother every service.
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When I'm up here.
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I can hear her agging me on right there on
the front row under her breast. She's constantly whispering, that's good, Joel.
Doesn't matter what I'm talking about. I'm her son. She
thinks everything I say is good. I can say, you
may be seated.
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All that's excellent today, Joel.
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But I realize I wouldn't be where I am today
without the people that have sown into my life. Now,
I'm not going to take for granted those who are
closest to me, my family, my friends, my co workers
that are making sacrifices so I can fulfill what God's
put in my life.
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In my heart. A lot of.
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People today they're making a living, but they're not really
making a life.
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They're working all the.
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Time, living, stressed out, bringing the tension home, too busy
to enjoy what God's given them. We have to understand
when we come to the end of our life, most
likely there will still be work to do at the office.
Your inbox will still be full. It's never going to
be all done. And if we don't make our family
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and those that we love a high priority to enjoy,
to spend time with, to invest in, then we'll end
up missing out on the thing that matters most. Because
in your final days here on this earth, the job.
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Won't keep your company. Your family will. But if you.
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Spend all your time just investing in a career, giving
the best of your life and energy to build a business,
then your lack of investment in what matters most, your family,
could leave you a very lonely person. It's good to
be focused and driven, it's good to be a hard worker,
but you've got to know how to walk away and say,
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you know what, this work is still going to be
at the office tomorrow when I show up, so I'm
gonna be my best today. I'm gonna work hard, but
i'm gonna play hard. I'm gonna enjoy my family. I'm
gonna have fun with my children. If you don't make
this decision, then your family will always only.
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Get your leftover time and leftover energy. They deserve better
than that.
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Don't take the stress from the office home to where
you show up the whole house tenses up. Don't let
how somebody treated you or what you didn't get done
sour your day to where you take it out on
your family.
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Leave that outside the home.
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I don't know about you, but I would rather make
less money and be able to enjoy my life and
enjoy my family than to be.
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So overwork that I never have any extra energy.
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There are plenty of opportunities I say no to because
I don't want my life to go by in a blur.
I don't want my children to grow up without knowing me.
I don't want to be so busy that I can't
come home and work out, or take a walk through
the park, or stay up and look at the stars,
or get up early and hear the birds singing. You've
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got to realize I'm a very goal oriented, disciplined person.
I've got to do just what I'm asking you to do.
I trained myself to slow down and enjoy the journey.
I read about Frank Lloyd Wright. He was a famous architect,
and when he was a young man in his early teens,
he was walking through a snow covered field with his uncle.
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They were headed to a house up in front of them,
but along the way Frank veered off and stopped by
the barn to see the animals. Then he went over
to the pond and took a look at that. Then
he saw fort off in the distance that they had built.
He went out of his way and went and saw that.
When he finally caught up with his uncle way across
the snow covered field, his uncle said, now, Frank, I
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want to teach you a lesson. Look back at our
footsteps in the snow. Mine came straight here. I never
ventured off, and I got here much.
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Quicker than you. But Frank, look at yours.
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You zigzagged all over the place, wasted so much time
stopping all along the way. Frank Lloyd Wright said that
was one of the best lessons he ever learned, but
he took it.
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Just the opposite.
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His philosophy was I still got to where I was going,
but I enjoyed all the sights along the way. And
in life, there will always be a balance between working hard,
being focused, accomplishing dreams, and taking time to stop and
smell the roses.
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Some of you today you don't zigzag enough.
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You need to start venturing off here and there and
appreciating and enjoying the great things God's placed in your life.
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You're all working no fun.
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But if you would change your approach and slow down
and enjoy the journey, you will not only still get
to where you're supposed to be, but your life.
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Will be so much more fulfilled now.
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I learned a lot of this from Victorious side of
the family. They love to laugh, they love to have fun,
They enjoy each other. At dinner, they can sit there
and talk for hours. My personality is I can eat
in ten minutes and I'm done.
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Let's get busy, Let's go do something. We got goals,
we got dreams.
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The other day, Victoria, her mom and brother and some
of the family came over after church and we had
a late lunch. And after I got through eating, I
went to the back and watched the football game. Two
and a half hours later, I came back out and
they were still sitting at the table in the same seats, laughing, talking,
having fun. I was so amazed. I said to Victoria,
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what are y'all talking about? She said, all nothing.
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Let me tell you, they can.
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Talk about nothing better than anybody I know.
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Why is that they enjoy each other.
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They've taught me how to take time to smell the roses.
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Think about this. God gives us.
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A sunrise every morning, Do you ever enjoy it? He
gives us stars every night? Do you ever look up
and appreciate it? Maybe you have your mom and dad
living close by. Do you ever stop by and spend time?
Do you ever call them and talk about nothing?
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Many of us?
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God is blessed with beautiful children. Do you enjoy them?
Or are you so busy raising them and cooking their
dinner and making sure they're doing their homework and making
sure they're cleaning their room that you don't really appreciate
the gift that God has given you. I know people
that love their children, no doubt about it, but they
don't really enjoy their children. They left the pressures of
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raising them robbed them of what they have to offer.
When our daughter Alexandra was about three years old. She
used to wake up at night and come down the
stairs and come into our room. Of course, we'd have
to get up and take her back to bed. For
a period of three or four months, she was waking
up two or three times a night and coming down.
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This was not long after I took over for my
father and started pastoring, so I was learning to minister,
and there was a lot of stress and changes just
with that.
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And now I wasn't getting that much sleep.
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And one time I was telling Victoria, we just got
to do something about Alexandra. She's coming down so much,
and you know, I'm just so tired and I'm not
getting out to sleep. On and on, Victoria said something
I'll never forget. She said, Joel, just remember, twenty years
from now, you'll give anything to hear those little footsteps.
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Coming down the stairs.
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You'll give anything to have her wanting to come into
your room. That changed my whole perspective. I started looking
forward to it. I started treasuring those moments that we
could spend together. Your children may be a lot of
work right now, but make sure you're enjoying them. They're
not always going to be there in the house with you.
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I heard Doctor ed Young tell about something that happened
with his son. Doctor Young is a good friend of ours,
great leader and the pastor of Second Baptist Church here
in town. When doctor Young was the president of the
Southern Baptist Convention, he received an invitation to go to
the White House and have a personal meeting with the President.
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It was a big deal. He was very excited about it.
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But his son's basketball team won their division and they
kept it advancing, and it just so happened that the
state championship was on the same.
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Day he was supposed to go to Washington.
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So he had to decide was he going to stay
and see a son or where's he gonna go and
see the president. I'm sure he could have thought, well,
I can watch the game later by video, I can
call and get updates. I can probably hear it on
the radio. Now, Doctor Young didn't think Twice, He had
his staff and formed the President's office that he would
not be able to attend. He went to his son's
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game and it was very exciting, very close. The score
kept going back and forth. Toward the end of the game,
his son's team was down by one point. Looked like
they'd come up short, but in the final seconds, his
son hit the game winning shot and they won the
state championship.
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Doctor Young said.
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I would not have traded that moment for anything in
the world, not even a meeting with the president. Friends,
we have to realize some things we cannot get back.
Our children will only be this age once. Take time
for the people in your life. Don't rush out of
the house without giving your spouse a hug. Don't be
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so busy that you can't go on the date that
you promise your little daughter. Don't come home so tired
that you can't go to the park and watch your
teenage son skateboard make memories together. Twenty years from now,
we're going to look back and say, those were the
good old days. You remember when you hit the game
winning shot. You remember when I used to go to
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the park and chase you around.
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You remember when we.
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Used to sit around the dinner table and laugh and
tell stories. Friends, we are living in the good old days.
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Don't take it for granted. Your family needs what you have.
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They need your smile, your encouragement, your support, your wisdom.
They need to know that you care and that they
mean the world to you. And it's important not to.
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Just be in the house.
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Don't just show up, be involved, be engaged. Heard somebody
say it's not the time we spend together that really matters,
it's the moments.
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Be agnite to make a memory. Now.
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I know plenty of people that are living in a
house full of family, but they're very lonely. Everybody is busy,
everybody's doing their own thing. Nobody is stepping up to say,
you know what, We're gonna be a family. We're gonna
take time to sit together at the dinner table and
see how we're doing. We're gonna go to the ballgame
or to the dance recital and cheer that other person on.
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We're gonna lift each other up when we're falling. We're
gonna enjoy what God has given us. See, it's easy
to be too busy, it's easy to become disengaged. But
if you want to get the most out of life,
you gotta draw the line in the sand and say,
I'm gonna slow down and enjoy the journey. I'm not
gonna take for granted what God has given me. I'm
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not gonna be a workaholic and not see my children
grow up. I'm not gonna live so stressed out that
I can't appreciate the simple things in life. A few
years ago, I was rounded everybody else at our house
to leave. We were headed to church, and we were
running late, and I was in a big hurry, all
stressed out about it. And our son, Jonathan, was about
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eight years old. Somebody had given us a label maker,
one of those little machines that you can type a
message and it'll print out a little label that you
can stick on somewhere. Jonathan was there by the back
door and he was typing in a message. I said, Jonathan,
you got to put that up.
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We're late. We got to go right now.
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He said, hang on, Dad, I just need another minute,
just another second. I said, Jonathan, we don't have another second.
We're not going to get to church in time. You
got to put it up. I was getting more and
more stressed out about that time. He printed out the
message and handed it to me. It said, you're the
best dad in the world. I thought, well, maybe we
can stay here a little longer, print out a few
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more of those. But sometimes we get so caught up
in her goals and so focused on the end result
that we missed the miracle all along the way. Take
time to smell the roses, enjoy the different personalities God's
put in your life. I've found it's the simple things
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that mean the most to us. You don't have to
take an expensive vacation to make a memory. You can
make a memory sitting at the dinner table. You can
make a memory watching your children play in the backyard,
getting up early with your spouse and taking in a
beautiful sunrise. Some of my best memories growing up were
when all of us kids, there were five of us,
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would sit with my father early in the morning and
drink coffee by the fire. When my father would take
his first sip of coffee, he would always.
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Let out a long ah.
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Now all of us kids from four to fourteen would
do the same thing. We'd have a contest to see
who could do the best. Odd we'd sit there and
laugh and have fun together. My brother Paul tells how
he and his children still get up today and drink
cat coffee early in the morning, sip it and say
they're os. I don't drink coffee anymore. I'm a little
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bit holier than he is.
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But growing up, we didn't have a lot of money, but.
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My parents were very innovative. We lived close to the
big airport, and a couple of nights a month when
it wasn't busy, they would take us up to the
airport and we would ride the train together.
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That was free.
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We loved it. You would have thought they were taking
us to an amusement park. We would go back and
forth between Terminal A and Terminal B for an hour
or two. I'm sure people thought that family is so lost,
they don't know what they're doing. Now you know what
we were doing. We were making a memory. We were
having fun together as a family.
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It's not how.
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Expensive it is or how exciting it is. Life is
all about what we make it. When our children were younger,
we took them to Disneyland. Alexandra was about five years old,
would guess, and it was very much a struggle getting
there that day. There was a lot of traffic and
we were in the rental car and hard finding a
place to park, and a long line to get on
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the tram.
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To catch it to the park.
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And by the time we got in the park, I
was very stressed out.
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We weren't there.
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Fifteen minutes until little Alexandra said Daddy, I want to
go back to the hotel and go swimming.
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I said no, no, no, Alexandra. We can swim anywhere.
We can swim at home. We're at Disneyland.
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She said, Daddy, I don't want to be at Disneyland.
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I want to go swimming.
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I said no, Alexandra, we may see Mickey Mouse. We're
gonna go find snow White. We're gonna have so much fun.
She said, I don't want.
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To have fun here.
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I finally had to say, listen, Alexandra, I pay fifty
bucks for your ticket. You're gonna have fun whether you
like it or no. What am I saying? It doesn't
take a lot of money to have fun. Many times
it's the simple things that we remember the most. I
heard about this man that was a huge baseball fan.
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For his son's eighth birthday, he bought him a baseball
that was autographed by all of the New York Yankees
they had just won the World Series. Paid a lot
of money for it, and he was sure his son
would treasure it for years to come. But when he
gave the ball to his son, his son wasn't excited
about it at all. In fact, he just looked at
it and put it off to the side. The dad
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was so disappointed, he said, son, don't you like the ball?
His son said, yes, Dad, but I'd like it a
lot better if somebody hadn't written all these names on it. Friends,
we've got to learn to enjoy the simple things in life.
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Today.
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Everything is so complicated. We have five hundred channels on TV,
the internet, cell phones, PDAs. Everywhere you look, there's something
to do, some kind of entertainment, and if we're not careful,
we'll fall into the trap of thinking that we've always
got to be busy.
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We can't have fun.
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We can't enjoy our life unless we're doing something big
and exciting. Or slow down and enjoy the simple things.
Turn off the TV and spend more time with your family.
Take a walk, go for a bike ride, play games
together that doesn't cost anything.
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Growing up, we used.
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To play hide and go seek as a family. My
mom and dad would chase us all through the house.
It's one of the highlights of my day. My favorite
memory is when my sister Lisa got stuck in the drier.
Thank god we had it on permanent press. But it's
not about what we have or don't have. Life is
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all about what we make it. You can have all
the money in the world and not be happy and
enjoying life. Plus you can have very little and be
just as satisfied and fulfilled as you can be.
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It's all in our approach.
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Now.
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I read about this family that was very wealthy.
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The father wanted to show his seven year old son
how the quote poor people live, and so he left
the big home in the city and they drove to
a little farm in the country where this family they
knew was and they spent the night with them. And
it's just a little frame, wood house and didn't have
any TV, no fancy furniture, no carpet. And at night
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this family, since there was no entertainment inside, they would
go out on the front porch and sing and laugh
and tell stories together. After being there a night or two,
the father and son headed back home. The father was
very curious as to if his son had learned his lesson,
and he asked him how he liked it. The little
boy said, oh, Dad, I really loved it. He said, well, son,
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do you see how poor people can be? And the
son said, yes, Dad, I did. He said, well, son,
tell me what exactly did you learn. The little boy said, well, Dad,
I learned that. We have one dog at home and
they have four. We have a swimming pool in the
middle of our backyard, but they have a stream with
no end. We have fancy lanterns on our house, but
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they have the stars. We watch TV by ourselves at night,
but they sit around as a family and have fun.
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His dad was shaking his head. He knew it had backfired.
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About that time, the son said, Dad, thank you so
much for showing me how poor we really are.
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Friends.
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If you have people in your life to love, you're rich.
If you have your health, you're rich. If you can
hear your little girls footsteps coming down the stairs, you're rich.
If you can talk with your family about nothing, you're rich.
Keep the right perspective, slow down and enjoy the simple
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things in life. Take more walks through the park, look
at the stars at night. Think about God's goodness when
you get up in the morning. Don't just drink your coffee,
Sip it and say ah, make a memory, Ignite that moment.
I'm asking us today to slow down and enjoy the journey.
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There will always be.
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Another dream, another goal, another challenge. Take time for what
matters most. Some of you are so focused and driven,
so busy with what you have to do each day,
you're missing the miracles all along the way. You need
to do like Frank Lloyd Wright and start zigzagging, start
enjoying the different things that God has put in your life.
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I heard somebody say, it's not that life is so short,
it's that we wait so long to begin. Why don't
you begin today? Take time to smell the roses, appreciate
the people in your life. Hug your children before you
leave each day. Give your spouse a kiss, Call your
parents and tell them how much you love them.
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Go visit those relatives you've been meaning to.
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Life is short, We're not always going to be here,
and it's good to work hard, but you've got to
learn how to turn it off, stay in balance and
play hard as well. We're living in the good old days.
If you'll make this decision that you're going to slow
down and enjoy the journey, then you will experience the
fullness of what God has in store. When you come
to the end of your life, you'll have no regrets.
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You'll be able to say I made the most of
my life. I enjoyed my family. I enjoyed, my friends.
I finished my course with joy.
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Amen. Do you receive that today?
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Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to
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you always a joy to come into your homes. We
love you and we know God has great things in store.
And if you're ever in our area, I hope you'll
stop by and be a part of one of our services.
I promise you we'll make you feel right at home.
Thanks for tuning in and thank you again for coming
out today. And I like to start with something funny.
And I heard about this man. Somebody had stolen his
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wife's credit card. A couple of months later, the company
called him and said, sir, we've got good news.
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We found the credit card.
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Without missing a beat, he said, tell the thief to
keep it.
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He spends less than my wife.
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All right, say it like you mean it. This is
my Bible. I am what it says I am. I
have what it says I have. I can do what
it says I can do. Today I will be taught
the word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert,
my heart is receptive.
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I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God
bless you.
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I want to talk to you today about enjoying the journey.
Life is not really about the destination. It's about how
we live all along the way. And it's easy to
become so goal oriented and so focused on our dreams
that we overlook the simple things that we should be enjoying.
But we have to realize life is a journey. There's
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no such thing as the finish line. Once you accomplish
this dream, God will give you another dream. When you
overcome this challenge, there'll be another challenge. There's always another
mountain to climb.
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If we make the.
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Mistake of just living for the destination, we'll look up
one day and realize we've missed out on the biggest
part of life. Because most of life is routine. Most
of us get up every morning, go to work, come home,
eat dinner, go to bed, and do it again. There
are very few mountaintops where you graduate from school, or
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you get married, or have a child, or go on vacation.
The high times are few and far between, but many
people are living for the mountaintops. They're so focused on
their promotion that they work night and day.
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They don't really enjoy their family.
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They're so stressed raising their children, they don't enjoy their children.
They're so caught up in getting out of a problem.
Their life goes by in a blur. We've got to
slow down and learn to enjoy the journey. This is
what I had to do before I was married. I
used to travel overseas with my father a couple of
times a year, and I lived for those big trips.
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I couldn't wait.
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I counted down the months, the weeks, hurried through the
days trying to get to that trip. When one trip
was over, I'd immediately start looking forward to the next trip.
One day I realized, I'm hurrying through life, just trying
to get to my big events. Of course, it's good
to have things to look forward to. It's good to
have goals in front of you, but don't put your
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life on hold until that happens. Enjoy all along the way.
I heard Dion Sanders talking. He was a star football
player and his dream was to win the Super Bowl.
That's what he wanted more than anything else. He trained
and trained year after year, working tirelessly.
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One day his dream came to pass. He won the
Super Bowl.
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He told that night, when he went home after the
big celebration, he was so disappointed.
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He thought, is this all that it is?
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I've worked and reached the pinnacle of my career, and
I thought it would be different. Yes, I'm happy, Yes
God's blessed me, but it's just not what I thought
it would be. And sometimes we can spend our whole
life trying to reach a goal, only to find out
it's not what it's all cracked up to. Be friends,
the real joy in life is in the simple things.
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It's in being with your family, getting up early and
seeing the sunrise, taking a walk through the park, taking
your daughter on a day, going on a bike ride
with your spouse. Sure, the goals, the accomplishments, they bring
us a sense of satisfaction, but they're only temporary. You
can't live off your Super Bowls. You can't live off
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your big events, because after you savor them for a moment,
God's going to birth a new dream in your heart,
something new to look forward to. And I've talked to
a lot of people that have made it to the
very top in their field, The one common regret I
seem to hear is that they did it at the
expense of their family. They say, Joel, if I could
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do it over again, I would take time to stop
and smell the roses. I would be there at my
children's Little League games. I would take more walks through
the park with my spouse. I wouldn't live so stressed
and uptight, thinking if I can just get to the
next level, then I'll slow down and enjoy my life. No,
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slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time
for the people God's put in your life. They're not
always going to be there, the scripture says in James,
our life is like a mist. We're here for a
moment and then we're gone. Every day we should tell
our spouse, our children, the people that mean the most
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to us, how much we love them. I told Victoria
the other day how much I appreciate her coming and
listening to me speak every service. A while back, we
were out of town holding services. Then we came back
and did the three services on the weekend, and I
figured up she had heard my same message that week
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eight times in a row. Listen after eight times, I'm
even tired of it. But she sits there three services
a week and she laughs at my same jokes like
it's the first time she ever heard them. And I
know she's faking it, but at least she's faking it
to make me feel good. I don't take that for granted.
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Make sure the people in your life know how much
you appreciate them sacrificing and being behind you. After all,
you wouldn't be where you were if somebody wasn't paying
the price to get you further down the road. I
think about my mother every service.
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When I'm up here.
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I can hear her agging me on right there on
the front row under her breast. She's constantly whispering, that's good, Joel.
Doesn't matter what I'm talking about. I'm her son. She
thinks everything I say is good. I can say, you
may be seated.
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All that's excellent today, Joel.
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But I realize I wouldn't be where I am today
without the people that have sown into my life. Now,
I'm not going to take for granted those who are
closest to me, my family, my friends, my co workers
that are making sacrifices so I can fulfill what God's
put in my life.
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In my heart. A lot of.
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People today they're making a living, but they're not really
making a life.
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They're working all the.
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Time, living, stressed out, bringing the tension home, too busy
to enjoy what God's given them. We have to understand
when we come to the end of our life, most
likely there will still be work to do at the office.
Your inbox will still be full. It's never going to
be all done. And if we don't make our family
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and those that we love a high priority to enjoy,
to spend time with, to invest in, then we'll end
up missing out on the thing that matters most. Because
in your final days here on this earth, the job.
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Won't keep your company. Your family will. But if you.
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Spend all your time just investing in a career, giving
the best of your life and energy to build a business,
then your lack of investment in what matters most, your family,
could leave you a very lonely person. It's good to
be focused and driven, it's good to be a hard worker,
but you've got to know how to walk away and say,
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you know what, this work is still going to be
at the office tomorrow when I show up, so I'm
gonna be my best today. I'm gonna work hard, but
i'm gonna play hard. I'm gonna enjoy my family. I'm
gonna have fun with my children. If you don't make
this decision, then your family will always only.
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Get your leftover time and leftover energy. They deserve better
than that.
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Don't take the stress from the office home to where
you show up the whole house tenses up. Don't let
how somebody treated you or what you didn't get done
sour your day to where you take it out on
your family.
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Leave that outside the home.
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I don't know about you, but I would rather make
less money and be able to enjoy my life and
enjoy my family than to be.
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So overwork that I never have any extra energy.
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There are plenty of opportunities I say no to because
I don't want my life to go by in a blur.
I don't want my children to grow up without knowing me.
I don't want to be so busy that I can't
come home and work out, or take a walk through
the park, or stay up and look at the stars,
or get up early and hear the birds singing. You've
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got to realize I'm a very goal oriented, disciplined person.
I've got to do just what I'm asking you to do.
I trained myself to slow down and enjoy the journey.
I read about Frank Lloyd Wright. He was a famous architect,
and when he was a young man in his early teens,
he was walking through a snow covered field with his uncle.
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They were headed to a house up in front of them,
but along the way Frank veered off and stopped by
the barn to see the animals. Then he went over
to the pond and took a look at that. Then
he saw fort off in the distance that they had built.
He went out of his way and went and saw that.
When he finally caught up with his uncle way across
the snow covered field, his uncle said, now, Frank, I
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want to teach you a lesson. Look back at our
footsteps in the snow. Mine came straight here. I never
ventured off, and I got here much.
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Quicker than you. But Frank, look at yours.
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You zigzagged all over the place, wasted so much time
stopping all along the way. Frank Lloyd Wright said that
was one of the best lessons he ever learned, but
he took it.
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Just the opposite.
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His philosophy was I still got to where I was going,
but I enjoyed all the sights along the way. And
in life, there will always be a balance between working hard,
being focused, accomplishing dreams, and taking time to stop and
smell the roses.
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Some of you today you don't zigzag enough.
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You need to start venturing off here and there and
appreciating and enjoying the great things God's placed in your life.
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You're all working no fun.
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But if you would change your approach and slow down
and enjoy the journey, you will not only still get
to where you're supposed to be, but your life.
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Will be so much more fulfilled now.
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I learned a lot of this from Victorious side of
the family. They love to laugh, they love to have fun,
They enjoy each other. At dinner, they can sit there
and talk for hours. My personality is I can eat
in ten minutes and I'm done.
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Let's get busy, Let's go do something. We got goals,
we got dreams.
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The other day, Victoria, her mom and brother and some
of the family came over after church and we had
a late lunch. And after I got through eating, I
went to the back and watched the football game. Two
and a half hours later, I came back out and
they were still sitting at the table in the same seats, laughing, talking,
having fun. I was so amazed. I said to Victoria,
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what are y'all talking about? She said, all nothing.
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Let me tell you, they can.
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Talk about nothing better than anybody I know.
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Why is that they enjoy each other.
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They've taught me how to take time to smell the roses.
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Think about this. God gives us.
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A sunrise every morning, Do you ever enjoy it? He
gives us stars every night? Do you ever look up
and appreciate it? Maybe you have your mom and dad
living close by. Do you ever stop by and spend time?
Do you ever call them and talk about nothing?
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Many of us?
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God is blessed with beautiful children. Do you enjoy them?
Or are you so busy raising them and cooking their
dinner and making sure they're doing their homework and making
sure they're cleaning their room that you don't really appreciate
the gift that God has given you. I know people
that love their children, no doubt about it, but they
don't really enjoy their children. They left the pressures of
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raising them robbed them of what they have to offer.
When our daughter Alexandra was about three years old. She
used to wake up at night and come down the
stairs and come into our room. Of course, we'd have
to get up and take her back to bed. For
a period of three or four months, she was waking
up two or three times a night and coming down.
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This was not long after I took over for my
father and started pastoring, so I was learning to minister,
and there was a lot of stress and changes just
with that.
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And now I wasn't getting that much sleep.
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And one time I was telling Victoria, we just got
to do something about Alexandra. She's coming down so much,
and you know, I'm just so tired and I'm not
getting out to sleep. On and on, Victoria said something
I'll never forget. She said, Joel, just remember, twenty years
from now, you'll give anything to hear those little footsteps.
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Coming down the stairs.
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You'll give anything to have her wanting to come into
your room. That changed my whole perspective. I started looking
forward to it. I started treasuring those moments that we
could spend together. Your children may be a lot of
work right now, but make sure you're enjoying them. They're
not always going to be there in the house with you.
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I heard Doctor ed Young tell about something that happened
with his son. Doctor Young is a good friend of ours,
great leader and the pastor of Second Baptist Church here
in town. When doctor Young was the president of the
Southern Baptist Convention, he received an invitation to go to
the White House and have a personal meeting with the President.
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It was a big deal. He was very excited about it.
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But his son's basketball team won their division and they
kept it advancing, and it just so happened that the
state championship was on the same.
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Day he was supposed to go to Washington.
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So he had to decide was he going to stay
and see a son or where's he gonna go and
see the president. I'm sure he could have thought, well,
I can watch the game later by video, I can
call and get updates. I can probably hear it on
the radio. Now, Doctor Young didn't think Twice, He had
his staff and formed the President's office that he would
not be able to attend. He went to his son's
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game and it was very exciting, very close. The score
kept going back and forth. Toward the end of the game,
his son's team was down by one point. Looked like
they'd come up short, but in the final seconds, his
son hit the game winning shot and they won the
state championship.
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Doctor Young said.
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I would not have traded that moment for anything in
the world, not even a meeting with the president. Friends,
we have to realize some things we cannot get back.
Our children will only be this age once. Take time
for the people in your life. Don't rush out of
the house without giving your spouse a hug. Don't be
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so busy that you can't go on the date that
you promise your little daughter. Don't come home so tired
that you can't go to the park and watch your
teenage son skateboard make memories together. Twenty years from now,
we're going to look back and say, those were the
good old days. You remember when you hit the game
winning shot. You remember when I used to go to
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the park and chase you around.
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You remember when we.
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Used to sit around the dinner table and laugh and
tell stories. Friends, we are living in the good old days.
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Don't take it for granted. Your family needs what you have.
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They need your smile, your encouragement, your support, your wisdom.
They need to know that you care and that they
mean the world to you. And it's important not to.
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Just be in the house.
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Don't just show up, be involved, be engaged. Heard somebody
say it's not the time we spend together that really matters,
it's the moments.
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Be agnite to make a memory. Now.
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I know plenty of people that are living in a
house full of family, but they're very lonely. Everybody is busy,
everybody's doing their own thing. Nobody is stepping up to say,
you know what, We're gonna be a family. We're gonna
take time to sit together at the dinner table and
see how we're doing. We're gonna go to the ballgame
or to the dance recital and cheer that other person on.
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We're gonna lift each other up when we're falling. We're
gonna enjoy what God has given us. See, it's easy
to be too busy, it's easy to become disengaged. But
if you want to get the most out of life,
you gotta draw the line in the sand and say,
I'm gonna slow down and enjoy the journey. I'm not
gonna take for granted what God has given me. I'm
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not gonna be a workaholic and not see my children
grow up. I'm not gonna live so stressed out that
I can't appreciate the simple things in life. A few
years ago, I was rounded everybody else at our house
to leave. We were headed to church, and we were
running late, and I was in a big hurry, all
stressed out about it. And our son, Jonathan, was about
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eight years old. Somebody had given us a label maker,
one of those little machines that you can type a
message and it'll print out a little label that you
can stick on somewhere. Jonathan was there by the back
door and he was typing in a message. I said, Jonathan,
you got to put that up.
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We're late. We got to go right now.
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He said, hang on, Dad, I just need another minute,
just another second. I said, Jonathan, we don't have another second.
We're not going to get to church in time. You
got to put it up. I was getting more and
more stressed out about that time. He printed out the
message and handed it to me. It said, you're the
best dad in the world. I thought, well, maybe we
can stay here a little longer, print out a few
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more of those. But sometimes we get so caught up
in her goals and so focused on the end result
that we missed the miracle all along the way. Take
time to smell the roses, enjoy the different personalities God's
put in your life. I've found it's the simple things
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that mean the most to us. You don't have to
take an expensive vacation to make a memory. You can
make a memory sitting at the dinner table. You can
make a memory watching your children play in the backyard,
getting up early with your spouse and taking in a
beautiful sunrise. Some of my best memories growing up were
when all of us kids, there were five of us,
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would sit with my father early in the morning and
drink coffee by the fire. When my father would take
his first sip of coffee, he would always.
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Let out a long ah.
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Now all of us kids from four to fourteen would
do the same thing. We'd have a contest to see
who could do the best. Odd we'd sit there and
laugh and have fun together. My brother Paul tells how
he and his children still get up today and drink
cat coffee early in the morning, sip it and say
they're os. I don't drink coffee anymore. I'm a little
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bit holier than he is.
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But growing up, we didn't have a lot of money, but.
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My parents were very innovative. We lived close to the
big airport, and a couple of nights a month when
it wasn't busy, they would take us up to the
airport and we would ride the train together.
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That was free.
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We loved it. You would have thought they were taking
us to an amusement park. We would go back and
forth between Terminal A and Terminal B for an hour
or two. I'm sure people thought that family is so lost,
they don't know what they're doing. Now you know what
we were doing. We were making a memory. We were
having fun together as a family.
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It's not how.
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Expensive it is or how exciting it is. Life is
all about what we make it. When our children were younger,
we took them to Disneyland. Alexandra was about five years old,
would guess, and it was very much a struggle getting
there that day. There was a lot of traffic and
we were in the rental car and hard finding a
place to park, and a long line to get on
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the tram.
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To catch it to the park.
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And by the time we got in the park, I
was very stressed out.
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We weren't there.
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Fifteen minutes until little Alexandra said Daddy, I want to
go back to the hotel and go swimming.
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I said no, no, no, Alexandra. We can swim anywhere.
We can swim at home. We're at Disneyland.
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She said, Daddy, I don't want to be at Disneyland.
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I want to go swimming.
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I said no, Alexandra, we may see Mickey Mouse. We're
gonna go find snow White. We're gonna have so much fun.
She said, I don't want.
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To have fun here.
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I finally had to say, listen, Alexandra, I pay fifty
bucks for your ticket. You're gonna have fun whether you
like it or no. What am I saying? It doesn't
take a lot of money to have fun. Many times
it's the simple things that we remember the most. I
heard about this man that was a huge baseball fan.
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For his son's eighth birthday, he bought him a baseball
that was autographed by all of the New York Yankees
they had just won the World Series. Paid a lot
of money for it, and he was sure his son
would treasure it for years to come. But when he
gave the ball to his son, his son wasn't excited
about it at all. In fact, he just looked at
it and put it off to the side. The dad
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was so disappointed, he said, son, don't you like the ball?
His son said, yes, Dad, but I'd like it a
lot better if somebody hadn't written all these names on it. Friends,
we've got to learn to enjoy the simple things in life.
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Today.
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Everything is so complicated. We have five hundred channels on TV,
the internet, cell phones, PDAs. Everywhere you look, there's something
to do, some kind of entertainment, and if we're not careful,
we'll fall into the trap of thinking that we've always
got to be busy.
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We can't have fun.
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We can't enjoy our life unless we're doing something big
and exciting. Or slow down and enjoy the simple things.
Turn off the TV and spend more time with your family.
Take a walk, go for a bike ride, play games
together that doesn't cost anything.
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Growing up, we used.
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To play hide and go seek as a family. My
mom and dad would chase us all through the house.
It's one of the highlights of my day. My favorite
memory is when my sister Lisa got stuck in the drier.
Thank god we had it on permanent press. But it's
not about what we have or don't have. Life is
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all about what we make it. You can have all
the money in the world and not be happy and
enjoying life. Plus you can have very little and be
just as satisfied and fulfilled as you can be.
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It's all in our approach.
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Now.
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I read about this family that was very wealthy.
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The father wanted to show his seven year old son
how the quote poor people live, and so he left
the big home in the city and they drove to
a little farm in the country where this family they
knew was and they spent the night with them. And
it's just a little frame, wood house and didn't have
any TV, no fancy furniture, no carpet. And at night
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this family, since there was no entertainment inside, they would
go out on the front porch and sing and laugh
and tell stories together. After being there a night or two,
the father and son headed back home. The father was
very curious as to if his son had learned his lesson,
and he asked him how he liked it. The little
boy said, oh, Dad, I really loved it. He said, well, son,
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do you see how poor people can be? And the
son said, yes, Dad, I did. He said, well, son,
tell me what exactly did you learn. The little boy said, well, Dad,
I learned that. We have one dog at home and
they have four. We have a swimming pool in the
middle of our backyard, but they have a stream with
no end. We have fancy lanterns on our house, but
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they have the stars. We watch TV by ourselves at night,
but they sit around as a family and have fun.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
His dad was shaking his head. He knew it had backfired.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
About that time, the son said, Dad, thank you so
much for showing me how poor we really are.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Friends.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
If you have people in your life to love, you're rich.
If you have your health, you're rich. If you can
hear your little girls footsteps coming down the stairs, you're rich.
If you can talk with your family about nothing, you're rich.
Keep the right perspective, slow down and enjoy the simple
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things in life. Take more walks through the park, look
at the stars at night. Think about God's goodness when
you get up in the morning. Don't just drink your coffee,
Sip it and say ah, make a memory, Ignite that moment.
I'm asking us today to slow down and enjoy the journey.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
There will always be.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Another dream, another goal, another challenge. Take time for what
matters most. Some of you are so focused and driven,
so busy with what you have to do each day,
you're missing the miracles all along the way. You need
to do like Frank Lloyd Wright and start zigzagging, start
enjoying the different things that God has put in your life.
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I heard somebody say, it's not that life is so short,
it's that we wait so long to begin. Why don't
you begin today? Take time to smell the roses, appreciate
the people in your life. Hug your children before you
leave each day. Give your spouse a kiss, Call your
parents and tell them how much you love them.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Go visit those relatives you've been meaning to.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Life is short, We're not always going to be here,
and it's good to work hard, but you've got to
learn how to turn it off, stay in balance and
play hard as well. We're living in the good old days.
If you'll make this decision that you're going to slow
down and enjoy the journey, then you will experience the
fullness of what God has in store. When you come
to the end of your life, you'll have no regrets.
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You'll be able to say I made the most of
my life. I enjoyed my family. I enjoyed, my friends.
I finished my course with joy.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Amen. Do you receive that today?
Speaker 1 (27:18):
We never like to close our broadcast without giving you
an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life.
Would you pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I
repent of my sins. Come into my heart. I make
you my Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that
simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get in
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a good Bible based church, Keep God in first place.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
He'll take your places that you've never dreamed of.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Thank you for listening to the Jolus Deine podcast. Help
us continue to share the message of hope with those
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Speaker 2 (27:57):
Thanks so much for listening to today's message.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
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Speaker 2 (28:06):
We're praying for you. I know God's best is steal ahead.
We'll see you next time.
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