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you can read that to your grandchildren.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ll do that.\u00a0 It\u2019s very cute.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, you know when you were talking, Bob, I was thinking about a couple of things that happened to me recently that illustrate this and to share the one story, I have to give a little background.\u00a0\u00a0 Barbara and I were speaking at a YPO conference, Young Presidents Organization, but anyway, one of the speakers at the conference was Coach K, coach of Duke Mike Krzyzewski.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnyway he was speaking and he told a story of how he had grown up in a home where his mom as a single parent had cleaned hotel rooms.\u00a0 He talked about the sacrifices his mom made so that he could go to college and today he could be successful.\u00a0 And he talked about the impact of that as a coach as he travels all across the United States and stays in hotel after hotel.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said I look at these ladies who clean these rooms differently because my mom was one of them.\u00a0 He said I always try to say thank you and express appreciation to them and to the point of your book that you just showed us here.\u00a0 Be kind to them because they\u2019re human beings that probably at great sacrifice are cleaning those hotel rooms to make ends meet.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI heard that story and you know how God will use a story like that and kind of impact you, well that did and ever since I\u2019ve tried to express more appreciation to the people who serve us in the public arena.\u00a0 The other day I was at a Target store and I was coming out of the men\u2019s room and the lady standing at the door of the men\u2019s room holding it open had a garbage can in front of her and she was about to push it into the men\u2019s room to clean it.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI paused and I looked at her and I said I just want to thank you for your work.\u00a0 The men\u2019s room was clean and tidy and fresh and I just want to say thank you for doing a great job.\u00a0 She looked at me and she said thank you and we passed and that was all I said and I walked on out toward where Barbara was standing and there was a young man, I\u2019m not sure where he was from, but he was Asian.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn broken English he said, that was remarkable.\u00a0 I said what?\u00a0 He said, what you just said to that woman, that was remarkable.\u00a0 He said why did you do that?\u00a0 I said, well she serves us and she cleans the restroom and we\u2019re all served by various people around us who make a difference in our lives and I just think we need to express appreciation to them for their service.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said, are you in the military? Are you in the service?\u00a0 I said, no.\u00a0 He said, are you a Christian?\u00a0 I said I\u2019m a follower of Jesus Christ, yes.\u00a0 I said that\u2019s what true followers of Christ do, they\u2019re obedient to Christ and they have a heart for people.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe goes, yes, but that was different.\u00a0\u00a0 That was from the heart.\u00a0 You\u2019re a good man.\u00a0 I talked to him, for I don\u2019t know, close to ten minutes it was really an interesting conversation in that, first of all he noticed, but then secondly that he would stop me and want to interact with me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think as a culture, this is why these series of broadcasts in this month of November are so important and why we\u2019re talking about gratitude.\u00a0 I think we have had a coarsening of America in the midst of our masses and our twittering and our facebook posts and our emails we don\u2019t write hand written letters like you are talking about here at the beginning of the broadcast.\u00a0 We don\u2019t pause to say thank you to people who serve us in the public arena who seldom have anyone say anything to them.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd I think in our families today, one of the great needs that we have is to take a step back and ask how are we training our children?\u00a0 How are we modeling for our children how to be kind to people and how to express gratefulness. To have an attitude of gratitude for those who serve us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We probably ought to start with the modeling before we work on the training, don\u2019t you think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think so.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And Barbara, one of the things you\u2019re hoping parents will do with the new book that you\u2019ve written which is called, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>, is to have an opportunity to explore and to investigate their own lives, reading stories of people who were grateful in very difficult circumstances, and then asking the question what about me?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s a question that we don\u2019t want to just ask our kids, but we need to look at our own lives.\u00a0 Are we grumblers?\u00a0 Are we complainers, because as we\u2019ve said many times, the natural predisposition of the human heart is a selfish predisposition, gratitude is the antithesis of that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 And just as that story that Dennis was sharing that he heard impacted him, and he never forgot it and then following that it\u2019s influenced his actions towards those who serve.\u00a0 The stories that we have in this devotional I hope will do the same.\u00a0 I hope that there will be at least one out of the seven that will lodge in your child\u2019s heart and mind.\u00a0\u00a0 And they will ponder that and they will think about that and it will remind them in their own life, in their own circumstances to give thanks because all of these stories are stories of gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey are all stories about people of faith who express thanksgiving and gratefulness to God for what was happening in their lives and some of the situations were positive, some were negative some were hard some were unbelievably difficult and yet they all chose to give thanks, and hopefully as your children hear these stories, they too will be influenced by them and they will remember and want to change their attitude into one of gratitude.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 George Barna has written a new book and in it he talks about what\u2019s taking place in families and he basically says we\u2019re losing the battle in the family because families are too busy.\u00a0 They\u2019re too busy to train their children and they need tools and they need help in training children to be civil and treat their brothers and sisters, which is a good place to start, with civility but beyond that into the marketplace their friends and how to be kind and how to care for each other and not just think of ourselves.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You mentioned the story from Coach Krzyzewski what caused him to look differently at the cleaning woman was his own mother\u2019s experience.\u00a0 When we have a change in perspective that\u2019s what can move us from grumbling to gratitude and when our perspective on any circumstances changed when we can believe that God is at work, when we can know that God is good and that all He does is good, that perspective will change how we view the circumstances around us.\u00a0 I mean think of Job who said, I didn\u2019t come with anything, I\u2019m not going with anything, blessed be the name of the Lord.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And his story reminds us of how to respond to circumstances that aren\u2019t nice, that aren\u2019t easy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of the stories you tell in the devotional is about Matthew Henry and they\u2019re probably a lot of our listeners who have Matthew Henry\u2019s commentary at home, but they don\u2019t know anything about Matthew Henry.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is actually Day Two of the devotional, Finding Good in the Bad.\u00a0 Ephesians 5:20 says, \u201cAlways giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d\u00a0 You start with the story of an eight year-old who you said we will call Amy, who wrote in her diary, today I forgot to brush my hair and my watch almost broke.\u00a0 My brother goes around the house screaming and bothering me.\u00a0 I can\u2019t not take it anymore.\u00a0 That\u2019s how she wrote it, is that right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s how she wrote it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I almost feel like running away.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Haven\u2019t you ever had one of those days when you can\u2019t not take it anymore?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 A no good, very bad day?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes exactly.\u00a0 We\u2019ve all had them.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But I can\u2019t run away because I simple have no place to go.\u00a0 Darren is a pain, at school Mr. O\u2019Neal picks Vern all the time; it\u2019s been a bad day.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad nothing will be rong in heaven.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Those aren\u2019t typos in Barbara\u2019s book, that\u2019s just the way she wrote it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, sweet little Amy, eight years old, wrote that in her diary.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And you\u2019re not divulging Amy\u2019s identity.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 No\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, you go on to write, we have all had bad days, sometimes we have several in a row and often our bad days are simply full of nuisances like Amy\u2019s little brother or a driver in front of us who is going so slow that we are late for an appointment, or the grocery store running out of the one item we needed for dinner, the vacuum breaks, our favorite t-shirt gets lost, the cell phone drops calls, a neighbor complains about where we put our trash cans or its pouring rain again and the kids are stuck in the house all day.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tInconveniences and inconsiderate people can make for bad days, but then you write, think back for a moment is it possible God is using the slow driver in front of you to protect you from a wreck?\u00a0 When you lose a valued possession, might it be God\u2019s teaching you a lesson in contentment.\u00a0 When someone in your life is being difficult could God be giving you an opportunity to pray and see what he will do?\u00a0 Proverbs 16:9 says, \u201cThe mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.\u201d\u00a0 Are you willing to look to the good that God intends in something that may seem bad?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Now, before you go on with the rest of the story about Matthew Henry, that last question is a great question.\u00a0 Reread it again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Are you willing to look for the good that God intends in something that may seem bad?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of the most oft repeated scriptures that is given to someone who is going through a difficult time is Romans 8:28.\u00a0 \u201cAnd we know this, that to those who love God and are called according to His purpose, all things work together for good.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGenesis chapter fifty, Joseph says, \u201cWhat man intended for evil, God used for good.\u201d\u00a0 This is a theme of scripture.\u00a0 God calls us to look beyond the circumstances of today and look to Him who\u2019s working all things together, but it takes faith to make that work.\u00a0 That\u2019s what parents are trying to do here. Parents are teaching their children how to walk by faith.\u00a0 That is the Christian life; you can\u2019t live the Christian life if you don\u2019t walk by faith in God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, and the story of Matthew Henry illustrates that.\u00a0 He was a puritan in the late 1600\u2019s and like little Amy he once wrote in his diary about something bad that had happened to him.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne day while walking in London, he was robbed by a couple of men who jumped him from the shadows of an alley, and being robbed is hardly an everyday nuisance, much more unsettling, much more of a personal violation and it leaves somebody feeling vulnerable and frightened.\u00a0 Matthew Henry probably felt those things, but what he wrote that night was very instructive.\u00a0 He wrote, let me be thankful, first because I was never robbed before, second because although they took my purse, they did not take my life, and third because although they took my all it wasn\u2019t very much.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 I like that line.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And fourth because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s a great perspective on a difficult situation.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that many of us would sit down at night after a bad thing happened and express that kind of gratitude for things that we take for granted.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I want to review what he gave thanks for.\u00a0 First, that he was never robbed before.\u00a0 You could live a lifetime and never be robbed.\u00a0 Secondly, that although they took his purse, they didn\u2019t take his life.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s an interesting perspective itself.\u00a0 Third, because they took everything he had and it wasn\u2019t much.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Somebody else might look at it, they got everything.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They got everything.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t a whole lot.\u00a0 And finally, that he wasn\u2019t a robber.\u00a0 That he was the one who was robbed but that his vocation was not robbery that he had been redeemed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think he knew that because of indwelling sin he could have just as easily been the robber.\u00a0 And as you wrote this devotional guide for families it was with the thought in mind that we can cultivate that habit that when things happen whether its, you didn\u2019t get to brush your hair and your brothers a brat or you get robbed.\u00a0 What\u2019s your response going to be?\u00a0 Are you going to go toward God or are you going to go away from God?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Well that\u2019s the whole goal and purpose in the devotional is to provide something for parents that can help them train their children.\u00a0 I think so often as parents we\u2019re overwhelmed, we don\u2019t know where to turn, we don\u2019t know what to use, we want our kids to be grateful, but we don\u2019t know how to get there.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd so the goal in these stories is to help you as a mom or a dad, as a couple to engage your children in stories of great faith that will inspire them to believe God, because it is a choice that they will have to make.\u00a0\u00a0 We can\u2019t make the choice for them.\u00a0 We can teach them to be grateful but they have to choose to be grateful and hopefully these stories will inspire our kids to make choices of faith and to express gratitude on their own because that\u2019s the ultimate goal.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Life just keeps coming at us in various flavors and forms and I look at the different things in this seven day devotional that Barbara has written and what she is calling us to do, giving thanks for discomfort.\u00a0 How often do we give thanks for something that isn\u2019t comfortable?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecondly, is finding the good in the bad.\u00a0 What we just read about, Matthew Henry saw it.\u00a0 Many times I don\u2019t.\u00a0 Third, is being thankful when I am betrayed.\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019ve been betrayed.\u00a0 I could tell you that\u2019s an act of faith for me to give thanks for a friend who has betrayed me.\u00a0 Fourth, is being thankful for handicaps.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 And all of us have them.\u00a0 We tend to think of handicaps as something pretty dramatic or severe, but all of us have handicaps of one kind or another.\u00a0 We may not be quite as quick as someone else, or quite as sharp intellectually, or quite as talented as someone else, we are all limited.\u00a0 We need to see those limitations as the way God has designed us and give thanks for the way He has made us as an individual, knowing it\u2019s for His purposes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, Day five in your devotional is about being thankful for providence.\u00a0 I like this one because if you don\u2019t believe God\u2019s in charge, I don\u2019t know how you can give thanks.\u00a0 If this is a random bunch of molecules, why would you want to give thanks?\u00a0 Who would you give thanks to?\u00a0 Randomness?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDay six, being thankful for deliverance.\u00a0 Day seven, giving thanks when no rescue happens.\u00a0 That does happen.\u00a0 There are times when your prayers go unanswered and it seems like God has hung you out to dry and life is just tough.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a matter of losing your cell phone or your wallet or something going bad in your day, it\u2019s something tragic, something that is harmful, something that is devastating in your life.\u00a0 How can you give thanks in those things?\u00a0 We need coaching in these matters.\u00a0\u00a0 These are all disciplines of faith that we can learn.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s really a matter of perspective as we\u2019ve said.\u00a0 Do you have an eternal perspective of a loving God who is in charge and is in control or do you have a temporal perspective of randomness as you talked about?\u00a0 When you have an eternal perspective then when things go wrong, because they will, you will find your hope and your comfort in God.\u00a0 I\u2019ve come back from traveling and Mary Ann will say how was the hotel?\u00a0 And like you, I\u2019ve stayed in some nice hotels and like you; I\u2019ve stayed in some not so nice hotels.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You even picked some hotels for me.\u00a0 You\u2019ve put me in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We were trying to save the ministry some money.\u00a0 When I put you in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I hope you saved a lot of money.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you know you come back and you go how was the hotel?\u00a0 I can get just like anybody else and go well the towels were thin and the sheets were scratchy and the TV flickered.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t think this place you put me up had any carpet.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 The reality is.\u00a0 I had a bed.\u00a0 I had a roof.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, there was a bed in this one.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I had running water.\u00a0 So it\u2019s a matter of perspective.\u00a0 Yes, the apostle Paul says, I\u2019ve learned how to be content with plenty and how to be content with not so much.\u00a0 And he wrote it living in a pit in the ground.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What\u2019s your favorite quote by the guy who talks about counseling his soul?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh from D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, yes he says we need to do a whole lot less listening to ourselves and a whole lot more talking to ourselves rather than just griping and grumbling as we listen to our soul we need to counsel our soul and tell our soul, why so downcast, put your faith in God, counsel our soul.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do here is counsel your soul and I want to encourage you, the month of November has enough days left to get this devotional and start going through it and take the rest of the month to exercise a faith muscle and learn about gratefulness, thanksgiving and train your children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, and we\u2019re hoping everyone will jump in and make this the theme for the month of November at their house and in fact, the devotional which we just got done.\u00a0 In fact we haven\u2019t had a chance to get it into Christian bookstores or out to Amazon or anyplace else.\u00a0 What we\u2019re doing, though, is we\u2019re making it available to any listener who calls us or who goes online and requests it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAll we\u2019re asking is that you make a donation of any amount to help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Whatever you can do, just make a donation and we\u2019ll be happy to send you Barbara\u2019s brand new, seven day devotional called, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em> and you can use it with your family this year leading up to Thanksgiving.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you go to our web site, FamilyLifeToday.com and you want to make your donation online, just type the word GRATITUDE in the key code box on the online donation form so we know you would like to receive this devotional or call 1-800-FLTODAY, make your donation over the phone and just ask for the new Gratitude devotional and again we are happy to send it out to you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe appreciate whatever you are able to do to help the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 We are listener supported and so those donations are what help cover the cost of producing and syndicating this daily radio program.\u00a0 We appreciate your listening and we appreciate your partnership with us and helping to cover those costs.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain the toll-free number is 1-800-FLTODAY, the web site is FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 Let me also mention that in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> resource center we have copies of Barbara Rainey\u2019s Thanksgiving book called, <em>Thanksgiving: A Time to Remember<\/em>.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have one of those to read the Thanksgiving story with your family, either on Thanksgiving Day or in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, you can order from us online at FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tInterestingly we\u2019ve talked to some folks who have ordered multiple quantities of this book and they use it as a Thanksgiving present to share with family members or to share with co-workers.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great way to present the story of God\u2019s faithfulness to the pilgrims and in the founding of America with friends and relatives.\u00a0 You can order either a single copy or multiple copies of the book again on our web site FamilyLifeToday.com or give us a call at 1-800-FLTODAY and we\u2019ll let you know how you can get the book sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWith that we\u2019ve got to wrap things up for this week.\u00a0 Thanks for being with us, hope you and your family are able to worship together this weekend and I hope you can join us back on Monday.\u00a0 In fact we\u2019re going to have the results for you on Monday.\u00a0 You\u2019ll meet the winner of the National Bible Bee competition that is taking place today in Washington, D.C. and we\u2019ll introduce you to the winner on Monday.\u00a0 Hope you can join us for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today Keith Lynch and our entire broadcast production team on behalf of our host Dennis Rainey I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you Monday for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 Help for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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you praise God even in the bad times?","meta_box":{"show_notes":"","transcript_url":"https:\/\/transcript.familylifetoday.com\/fl2009-11-06.pdf","transcript_content":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Giving thanks for discomfort, how often do we give thanks for something that isn\u2019t comfortable?\u00a0 Finding the good in the bad, many times I don\u2019t.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Being thankful when I\u2019m betrayed.\u00a0 I can tell you that is an act of faith for me to give thanks for a friend who has betrayed me.\u00a0 Giving thanks when no rescue happens.\u00a0 These are all disciplines of faith that we can learn.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Friday, November 6<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Our host is the President of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey and I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk today about how we learn those disciplines of faith and how we help our children learn them to produce in them a heart of gratitude.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWelcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> thanks for joining us.\u00a0 I brought a book in here that I wanted to show to your wife who is joining us again on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Barbara welcome back to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Thanks, you know I like books.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, I do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 She brightens up the room, Bob.\u00a0 I mean you\u2019re nice to look at, but honestly\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, let\u2019s be honest.\u00a0 I was at a conference awhile back and a pastor\u2019s wife came up to me and she said, \u201cI want to give you a book.\u201d\u00a0 She said, it\u2019s for kids, and I was glad that she explained she was giving it to me not because she thought I needed it, but because I could maybe share it with others.\u00a0 The book is called, <em>Be Kind, Be Sweet to Everyone You Meet: A fun way to learn manners and counting<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd she just went on to say, our kids have to be taught kindness and manners and being other-centered.\u00a0 So she wanted to come up with a book that taught them numbers.\u00a0 Here\u2019s number six and number seven and number eight, number eleven \u2013 give thanks always in all that you do you\u2019ll be surprised at how glad it will make you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd she says here are some good times to write thank you notes.\u00a0 When you receive gifts on your birthdays or holidays, when you go to someone\u2019s house for dinner, when someone brings you ice cream when you\u2019re sick or anytime.\u00a0 And then she quotes Ephesians 1:16, \u201cI\u2019ve not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.\u201d\u00a0 She said, \u201cI\u2019m just trying to help kids learn manners, but help them learn the habits of the heart related to that.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 So I told her I would pass the book along to you.\u00a0 Here it\u2019s your copy; you can read that to your grandchildren.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 I\u2019ll do that.\u00a0 It\u2019s very cute.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, you know when you were talking, Bob, I was thinking about a couple of things that happened to me recently that illustrate this and to share the one story, I have to give a little background.\u00a0\u00a0 Barbara and I were speaking at a YPO conference, Young Presidents Organization, but anyway, one of the speakers at the conference was Coach K, coach of Duke Mike Krzyzewski.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnyway he was speaking and he told a story of how he had grown up in a home where his mom as a single parent had cleaned hotel rooms.\u00a0 He talked about the sacrifices his mom made so that he could go to college and today he could be successful.\u00a0 And he talked about the impact of that as a coach as he travels all across the United States and stays in hotel after hotel.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said I look at these ladies who clean these rooms differently because my mom was one of them.\u00a0 He said I always try to say thank you and express appreciation to them and to the point of your book that you just showed us here.\u00a0 Be kind to them because they\u2019re human beings that probably at great sacrifice are cleaning those hotel rooms to make ends meet.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI heard that story and you know how God will use a story like that and kind of impact you, well that did and ever since I\u2019ve tried to express more appreciation to the people who serve us in the public arena.\u00a0 The other day I was at a Target store and I was coming out of the men\u2019s room and the lady standing at the door of the men\u2019s room holding it open had a garbage can in front of her and she was about to push it into the men\u2019s room to clean it.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI paused and I looked at her and I said I just want to thank you for your work.\u00a0 The men\u2019s room was clean and tidy and fresh and I just want to say thank you for doing a great job.\u00a0 She looked at me and she said thank you and we passed and that was all I said and I walked on out toward where Barbara was standing and there was a young man, I\u2019m not sure where he was from, but he was Asian.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn broken English he said, that was remarkable.\u00a0 I said what?\u00a0 He said, what you just said to that woman, that was remarkable.\u00a0 He said why did you do that?\u00a0 I said, well she serves us and she cleans the restroom and we\u2019re all served by various people around us who make a difference in our lives and I just think we need to express appreciation to them for their service.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe said, are you in the military? Are you in the service?\u00a0 I said, no.\u00a0 He said, are you a Christian?\u00a0 I said I\u2019m a follower of Jesus Christ, yes.\u00a0 I said that\u2019s what true followers of Christ do, they\u2019re obedient to Christ and they have a heart for people.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe goes, yes, but that was different.\u00a0\u00a0 That was from the heart.\u00a0 You\u2019re a good man.\u00a0 I talked to him, for I don\u2019t know, close to ten minutes it was really an interesting conversation in that, first of all he noticed, but then secondly that he would stop me and want to interact with me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think as a culture, this is why these series of broadcasts in this month of November are so important and why we\u2019re talking about gratitude.\u00a0 I think we have had a coarsening of America in the midst of our masses and our twittering and our facebook posts and our emails we don\u2019t write hand written letters like you are talking about here at the beginning of the broadcast.\u00a0 We don\u2019t pause to say thank you to people who serve us in the public arena who seldom have anyone say anything to them.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd I think in our families today, one of the great needs that we have is to take a step back and ask how are we training our children?\u00a0 How are we modeling for our children how to be kind to people and how to express gratefulness. To have an attitude of gratitude for those who serve us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We probably ought to start with the modeling before we work on the training, don\u2019t you think?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think so.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And Barbara, one of the things you\u2019re hoping parents will do with the new book that you\u2019ve written which is called, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em>, is to have an opportunity to explore and to investigate their own lives, reading stories of people who were grateful in very difficult circumstances, and then asking the question what about me?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s a question that we don\u2019t want to just ask our kids, but we need to look at our own lives.\u00a0 Are we grumblers?\u00a0 Are we complainers, because as we\u2019ve said many times, the natural predisposition of the human heart is a selfish predisposition, gratitude is the antithesis of that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 And just as that story that Dennis was sharing that he heard impacted him, and he never forgot it and then following that it\u2019s influenced his actions towards those who serve.\u00a0 The stories that we have in this devotional I hope will do the same.\u00a0 I hope that there will be at least one out of the seven that will lodge in your child\u2019s heart and mind.\u00a0\u00a0 And they will ponder that and they will think about that and it will remind them in their own life, in their own circumstances to give thanks because all of these stories are stories of gratitude.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey are all stories about people of faith who express thanksgiving and gratefulness to God for what was happening in their lives and some of the situations were positive, some were negative some were hard some were unbelievably difficult and yet they all chose to give thanks, and hopefully as your children hear these stories, they too will be influenced by them and they will remember and want to change their attitude into one of gratitude.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 George Barna has written a new book and in it he talks about what\u2019s taking place in families and he basically says we\u2019re losing the battle in the family because families are too busy.\u00a0 They\u2019re too busy to train their children and they need tools and they need help in training children to be civil and treat their brothers and sisters, which is a good place to start, with civility but beyond that into the marketplace their friends and how to be kind and how to care for each other and not just think of ourselves.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 You mentioned the story from Coach Krzyzewski what caused him to look differently at the cleaning woman was his own mother\u2019s experience.\u00a0 When we have a change in perspective that\u2019s what can move us from grumbling to gratitude and when our perspective on any circumstances changed when we can believe that God is at work, when we can know that God is good and that all He does is good, that perspective will change how we view the circumstances around us.\u00a0 I mean think of Job who said, I didn\u2019t come with anything, I\u2019m not going with anything, blessed be the name of the Lord.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 And his story reminds us of how to respond to circumstances that aren\u2019t nice, that aren\u2019t easy.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 One of the stories you tell in the devotional is about Matthew Henry and they\u2019re probably a lot of our listeners who have Matthew Henry\u2019s commentary at home, but they don\u2019t know anything about Matthew Henry.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is actually Day Two of the devotional, Finding Good in the Bad.\u00a0 Ephesians 5:20 says, \u201cAlways giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d\u00a0 You start with the story of an eight year-old who you said we will call Amy, who wrote in her diary, today I forgot to brush my hair and my watch almost broke.\u00a0 My brother goes around the house screaming and bothering me.\u00a0 I can\u2019t not take it anymore.\u00a0 That\u2019s how she wrote it, is that right?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s how she wrote it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I almost feel like running away.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Haven\u2019t you ever had one of those days when you can\u2019t not take it anymore?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 A no good, very bad 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today and look to Him who\u2019s working all things together, but it takes faith to make that work.\u00a0 That\u2019s what parents are trying to do here. Parents are teaching their children how to walk by faith.\u00a0 That is the Christian life; you can\u2019t live the Christian life if you don\u2019t walk by faith in God.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Well, and the story of Matthew Henry illustrates that.\u00a0 He was a puritan in the late 1600\u2019s and like little Amy he once wrote in his diary about something bad that had happened to him.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne day while walking in London, he was robbed by a couple of men who jumped him from the shadows of an alley, and being robbed is hardly an everyday nuisance, much more unsettling, much more of a personal violation and it leaves somebody feeling vulnerable and frightened.\u00a0 Matthew Henry probably felt those things, but what he wrote that night was very instructive.\u00a0 He wrote, let me be thankful, first because I was never robbed before, second because although they took my purse, they did not take my life, and third because although they took my all it wasn\u2019t very much.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 I like that line.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 And fourth because it was I who was robbed and not I who robbed.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s a great perspective on a difficult situation.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know that many of us would sit down at night after a bad thing happened and express that kind of gratitude for things that we take for granted.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I want to review what he gave thanks for.\u00a0 First, that he was never robbed before.\u00a0 You could live a lifetime and never be robbed.\u00a0 Secondly, that although they took his purse, they didn\u2019t take his life.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s an interesting perspective itself.\u00a0 Third, because they took everything he had and it wasn\u2019t much.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Somebody else might look at it, they got everything.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 They got everything.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t a whole lot.\u00a0 And finally, that he wasn\u2019t a robber.\u00a0 That he was the one who was robbed but that his vocation was not robbery that he had been redeemed.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I think he knew that because of indwelling sin he could have just as easily been the robber.\u00a0 And as you wrote this devotional guide for families it was with the thought in mind that we can cultivate that habit that when things happen whether its, you didn\u2019t get to brush your hair and your brothers a brat or you get robbed.\u00a0 What\u2019s your response going to be?\u00a0 Are you going to go toward God or are you going to go away from God?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Well that\u2019s the whole goal and purpose in the devotional is to provide something for parents that can help them train their children.\u00a0 I think so often as parents we\u2019re overwhelmed, we don\u2019t know where to turn, we don\u2019t know what to use, we want our kids to be grateful, but we don\u2019t know how to get there.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd so the goal in these stories is to help you as a mom or a dad, as a couple to engage your children in stories of great faith that will inspire them to believe God, because it is a choice that they will have to make.\u00a0\u00a0 We can\u2019t make the choice for them.\u00a0 We can teach them to be grateful but they have to choose to be grateful and hopefully these stories will inspire our kids to make choices of faith and to express gratitude on their own because that\u2019s the ultimate goal.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Life just keeps coming at us in various flavors and forms and I look at the different things in this seven day devotional that Barbara has written and what she is calling us to do, giving thanks for discomfort.\u00a0 How often do we give thanks for something that isn\u2019t comfortable?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecondly, is finding the good in the bad.\u00a0 What we just read about, Matthew Henry saw it.\u00a0 Many times I don\u2019t.\u00a0 Third, is being thankful when I am betrayed.\u00a0 Yes, I\u2019ve been betrayed.\u00a0 I could tell you that\u2019s an act of faith for me to give thanks for a friend who has betrayed me.\u00a0 Fourth, is being thankful for handicaps.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Barbara:<\/strong>\u00a0 And all of us have them.\u00a0 We tend to think of handicaps as something pretty dramatic or severe, but all of us have handicaps of one kind or another.\u00a0 We may not be quite as quick as someone else, or quite as sharp intellectually, or quite as talented as someone else, we are all limited.\u00a0 We need to see those limitations as the way God has designed us and give thanks for the way He has made us as an individual, knowing it\u2019s for His purposes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, Day five in your devotional is about being thankful for providence.\u00a0 I like this one because if you don\u2019t believe God\u2019s in charge, I don\u2019t know how you can give thanks.\u00a0 If this is a random bunch of molecules, why would you want to give thanks?\u00a0 Who would you give thanks to?\u00a0 Randomness?\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDay six, being thankful for deliverance.\u00a0 Day seven, giving thanks when no rescue happens.\u00a0 That does happen.\u00a0 There are times when your prayers go unanswered and it seems like God has hung you out to dry and life is just tough.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a matter of losing your cell phone or your wallet or something going bad in your day, it\u2019s something tragic, something that is harmful, something that is devastating in your life.\u00a0 How can you give thanks in those things?\u00a0 We need coaching in these matters.\u00a0\u00a0 These are all disciplines of faith that we can learn.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s really a matter of perspective as we\u2019ve said.\u00a0 Do you have an eternal perspective of a loving God who is in charge and is in control or do you have a temporal perspective of randomness as you talked about?\u00a0 When you have an eternal perspective then when things go wrong, because they will, you will find your hope and your comfort in God.\u00a0 I\u2019ve come back from traveling and Mary Ann will say how was the hotel?\u00a0 And like you, I\u2019ve stayed in some nice hotels and like you; I\u2019ve stayed in some not so nice hotels.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 You even picked some hotels for me.\u00a0 You\u2019ve put me in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(Laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 We were trying to save the ministry some money.\u00a0 When I put you in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I hope you saved a lot of money.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 But you know you come back and you go how was the hotel?\u00a0 I can get just like anybody else and go well the towels were thin and the sheets were scratchy and the TV flickered.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 I don\u2019t think this place you put me up had any carpet.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 The reality is.\u00a0 I had a bed.\u00a0 I had a roof.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, there was a bed in this one.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 I had running water.\u00a0 So it\u2019s a matter of perspective.\u00a0 Yes, the apostle Paul says, I\u2019ve learned how to be content with plenty and how to be content with not so much.\u00a0 And he wrote it living in a pit in the ground.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 What\u2019s your favorite quote by the guy who talks about counseling his soul?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Oh from D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, yes he says we need to do a whole lot less listening to ourselves and a whole lot more talking to ourselves rather than just griping and grumbling as we listen to our soul we need to counsel our soul and tell our soul, why so downcast, put your faith in God, counsel our soul.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do here is counsel your soul and I want to encourage you, the month of November has enough days left to get this devotional and start going through it and take the rest of the month to exercise a faith muscle and learn about gratefulness, thanksgiving and train your children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 Yes, and we\u2019re hoping everyone will jump in and make this the theme for the month of November at their house and in fact, the devotional which we just got done.\u00a0 In fact we haven\u2019t had a chance to get it into Christian bookstores or out to Amazon or anyplace else.\u00a0 What we\u2019re doing, though, is we\u2019re making it available to any listener who calls us or who goes online and requests it.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAll we\u2019re asking is that you make a donation of any amount to help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Whatever you can do, just make a donation and we\u2019ll be happy to send you Barbara\u2019s brand new, seven day devotional called, <em>Growing Together in Gratitude<\/em> and you can use it with your family this year leading up to Thanksgiving.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you go to our web site, FamilyLifeToday.com and you want to make your donation online, just type the word GRATITUDE in the key code box on the online donation form so we know you would like to receive this devotional or call 1-800-FLTODAY, make your donation over the phone and just ask for the new Gratitude devotional and again we are happy to send it out to you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe appreciate whatever you are able to do to help the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 We are listener supported and so those donations are what help cover the cost of producing and syndicating this daily radio program.\u00a0 We appreciate your listening and we appreciate your partnership with us and helping to cover those costs.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain the toll-free number is 1-800-FLTODAY, the web site is FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 Let me also mention that in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> resource center we have copies of Barbara Rainey\u2019s Thanksgiving book called, <em>Thanksgiving: A Time to Remember<\/em>.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have one of those to read the Thanksgiving story with your family, either on Thanksgiving Day or in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, you can order from us online at FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tInterestingly we\u2019ve talked to some folks who have ordered multiple quantities of this book and they use it as a Thanksgiving present to share with family members or to share with co-workers.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great way to present the story of God\u2019s faithfulness to the pilgrims and in the founding of America with friends and relatives.\u00a0 You can order either a single copy or multiple copies of the book again on our web site FamilyLifeToday.com or give us a call at 1-800-FLTODAY and we\u2019ll let you know how you can get the book sent to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWith that we\u2019ve got to wrap things up for this week.\u00a0 Thanks for being with us, hope you and your family are able to worship together this weekend and I hope you can join us back on Monday.\u00a0 In fact we\u2019re going to have the results for you on Monday.\u00a0 You\u2019ll meet the winner of the National Bible Bee competition that is taking place today in Washington, D.C. and we\u2019ll introduce you to the winner on Monday.\u00a0 Hope you can join us for that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today Keith Lynch and our entire broadcast production team on behalf of our host Dennis Rainey I\u2019m Bob Lepine.\u00a0 We will see you Monday for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas.\u00a0 Help for today.\u00a0 Hope for tomorrow.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe are so happy to provide these transcripts for you. 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