Resilient Holidays: Family, Faith, and Overcoming Challenges

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Lori: Welcome back to My Mornings with Jesus and Joe. I’m Lori.

Joe: And I’m Joe.

Lori: And we are actually recording this a little ahead of time because we’ve got a busy couple of weeks coming up and then there’s, Thanksgiving in there as well. So, if something big happens between now and the time you hear this and you wonder why we didn’t talk about it, it’s ’cause we recorded this earlier.

Just a

Joe: little.

Lori: Yeah. So big excitement is you head out tomorrow to lead, the base camp Yes. That you lead for men twice a year?

Joe: Yes.

Lori: And, you actually have a record number of attendees. By a long shot,

Joe: that

Lori: would be this time.

Joe: Yep. And I can feel the effects of that with the things going [00:01:00] on around it and swirling around it that the enemy tries to do some distracting.

Lori: Mm-hmm.

Joe: And, yeah. But it’s going to be awesome, great timing, for the holidays to get some men. Back on track with God like they should be.

Lori: Yes. I love that. Didn’t think until we were kind of just sitting around thinking and talking about it and I was like, you know, this is great timing because as we go into the holidays, I mean, Satan is always at work attacking families, but he, ramps it up during the holidays and we let him, but we’re gonna send some men back from this camp really.

fired up to take their places as leaders of their household. And I think it families are gonna benefit. Yeah, I think so too. They’ll be well equipped. So I read a quote the other day. It said, A happy family is but an earlier heaven that’s by John Bow ring.

Joe: That’s a cool quote.

Lori: I love it. and I think it’s true because I know those moments as a nana that I am and I have.

Amazing grandsons when I can have my whole [00:02:00] family together and everybody is happy and having a joy filled time doesn’t happen every time, but when it does, it’s just such a, I can see it’s totally a taste of heaven. Yeah, agree. But Satan, who doesn’t want us in heaven at all.

He doesn’t like that.

Joe: No, he’s not a fan.

Lori: No. He can’t stop us from getting to heaven once we accept Jesus. But he can do everything he can to keep us from experience that earlier heaven through a happy family here on Earth. So today we’re gonna talk a little about, I mean there’s so much we could say go into about families and the attacks that are coming on, but we’re gonna focus specifically on things that come up, more often during the holidays

Like pregame, pregame planning. You call it

Joe: situational awareness.

Lori: Yes. You know what you’re going into. I think a lot of times the reason our holidays fall off the rails is because we just charge into them. Whereas we need to take time beforehand and go, okay, these are the [00:03:00] issues I may be dealing with.

I’m gonna get tired, I’m gonna eat too much food. I’m gonna have to be around people that. Sometimes rub me the wrong way that I have trouble interacting with. I’m gonna have to resist spending too much money. All the things that can start Weighing on us.

If you pregame those Yes. Think of them

Joe: mm-hmm.

Lori: Ahead of time and make your plan, know how you’re gonna react in that moment, you will come through the holidays a lot happier,

Joe: that’s for sure. ‘

Lori: cause the holidays, they are a fertile feel for Satan to do his dirty work in well

Joe: there.

Lori: It should be this. Well, as the song song says, the most wonderful time of the year.

Joe: Yeah,

Lori: I love that. But,

Joe: but he doesn’t want families to enjoy being a family. He doesn’t want families to focus on Christ. He, he has other plans. How

Lori: devious is it that he takes the time of year that we’re celebrating the birth of Christ?

Joe: Mm-hmm.

Lori: and rejoicing in family. And he, he twists it just enough to make that [00:04:00] almost one of the hardest times of year to get through.

Joe: Yep. That he does.

Lori: So some of, he has several tools At his disposal that tend to work best during the holidays. Yep. Joe? what’s one of those?

Joe: One of those is, busyness.

during this time of year, you see so many people, they try to get from their work party to their. House parties to their family parties, to parties with friends, trying to get all the shopping done, trying to get all the families taken care of to appease everybody and run themselves ragged, trying to do the shopping, trying to shop for all the parties to get a little something for each person at

Lori: each party.

Cooking, decorating. Yes. And yeah. You mentioned the calendar because you know, as families. Grow and become more, diverse.

Joe: Yeah.

Lori: It’s hard to pick a date when everybody can be there and everybody wants everybody to be together, but sometimes that’s just not gonna happen. Yep. [00:05:00] Depending on work schedules, travel schedules and those sort of things, we gotta make peace with that.

But it just can’t happen every time. But that’s not what makes Christmas. Christmas. yeah. It’s wonderful if we can all be together For that day to celebrate. But that is not what makes Christmas, Christmas,

Joe: and what we do to help that a little bit is we don’t focus on a certain day like Thanksgiving Day.

day. We’re trying to be flexible to be let everybody kind of fit. And get the most of us together, we can. It may not be all of us, but we just try to go where the most can happen, but not be so set on. That’s the only day and there’s no other way.

Lori: There’s something special about the day, but honestly, the day of Christmas, we don’t know that that was the day of Christ’s birth. That’s just the date that tradition says it is. Yeah. So we celebrate that day, but honestly you can celebrate that any day. I think it’s very helpful that scripture actually tells us in Revelation 12, nine that Satan [00:06:00] leads the whole world astray.

Joe: Yeah.

Lori: And to do that, all he has to do is to get us to turn our attention away from God at the time of year when our, we should be focused on God all year. But at this time, everything we do should be set about focusing on, the birth of Christ. He can just. Nuance some things in That we think are good and suddenly we’re not thinking about Christ.

We’re thinking about the shopping list and the travel schedules. the parties, decorations, all those things. Second Corinthians 1114 says, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light and. What does that make you think of?

I think of the Christmas lights. Oh yeah. You know, we put up Christmas lights, as you know. ’cause Jesus is the light of the world. Yeah. I think that makes perfect sense. But if we get caught up in our lighting extravaganza, then maybe we’re not thinking about [00:07:00] Jesus as a light of the world and, and Satan has come in as a light and we’re focused on the wrong thing.

Joe: Yep. and like Lori’s talking about that Christmas lights and decorations, aren’t that bad, but if they become your focus, which a lot of people kind of do, they focus on decorating their yard and their house and all that and their tree and making everything just perfect, but there’s very little Jesus in any of it.

May not even be going to church or anything. They’re just enjoying having all the lights and the decoration and so,

Lori: yeah,

Joe: some people mis focus on that.

Lori: Y’all hear me when I say this? I love Christmas. Christmas decorations. I love the, the lighting, I love the food, the smells, the sounds, all the things Christmas, I do.

I love all those things, but I have learned sometimes the hard way that when I focus on all those things, by the time I get through the holidays, it just feels. Empty and [00:08:00] hollow. So I can do it that way, or I can make it a rich, experience full of sacred memories.

Joe: Amen to that.

Lori: So, you know, scripture tells us we can do all things, but we can’t do everything.

Joe: Yep.

Lori: And nothing, nothing like Christmas to make us. Convinced that what we wanna do is everything. So it really boils down to we can do all the things everyone else is doing or try to. Or we can do what no one else can do, which is love our family and spend time with them.

Joe: Yep.

Lori: And nobody else can do that because they’re our family.

Yep. Unique to us. And that’s where I want.

Joe: Yeah, that’s the place to be. Because between all the busyness and distraction, it leads to one thing that’s not Christlike and that’s exhaustion.

Lori: Yes.

Joe: And so that’s, that’s not the way to go through your holidays. That’s not the way to go through every day as far as that goes.

There’s a lot of people that are exhausted every day ’cause they’re trying to do everything on their own anyway. Okay, [00:09:00] but the holidays, that’s a true kind of that litmus test of, okay, you can kinda see what your focus is.

There’s some scriptures, Luke 10, 41 through 42 says, then Jesus answered and said to her, Martha, Martha, you’re worried and troubled about many things, but the one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which is not take, not to be taken away from her. And so there again, that’s the hurrying scurrying.

Busyness and distraction.

Lori: Well, I love that he doesn’t say Martha was troubled about the wrong things. Mm-hmm. And we do that. We, we try to tackle many things, but there’s one thing, yes. One thing that matters most mm-hmm. During the holiday season.

Joe: seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added to you, which is Matthew 6 33. So when we seek that [00:10:00] one thing out of the many things, it’s the best thing.

Lori: So with all our decorations, a lot of times I think what we’re looking for is beauty and just a feeling of celebration, those sort of things.

Yeah. So this is saying that if we are seeking the kingdom of God. We’re going to experience that. It’s not something we have to conjure up with our own efforts. Another thing that Satan uses against families this time of year is, comparison and jealousy.

Joe: That is for sure.

Lori: And boy, we know that Satan’s a liar, but we really open ourselves up to those lies, when we do our holiday comparing.

Joe: Yes, you can just see that real evident when you just drive down some of the roads and streets and see some of the lights. Displays that people do.

they don’t wanna be outdone by their neighbor. And then you look at holiday pictures, there’s a whole bunch of people, they take their family photo and it’s perfect. And then there’s another family that’s trying to do that and it’s not [00:11:00] perfect. It’s hard to get everybody still.

All these little guys that we got running around here ’cause people see that and they don’t realize it took 30 or 40 tries to get that picture where everybody’s not pulling their hair and doing funny things. And the comparison does do that

Lori: And even innocent things like, okay, a lot of people, hallmark movies are really popular.

Your Christmas should be like that. Christmas. Yeah. Nah, it’s not gonna happen. commercials for cars with giant bows on top and or, or tiny velvet boxes full of diamonds. Yeah. That’s what’s supposed to happen at Christmas. maybe there was a time when those things might have stirred my emotions a little bit, but those commercials really leave me flat.

I just don’t get it. I don’t have any sense of the holiday when I watch the specialness of the holiday.

Joe: there’s something about all that kind of stuff that’s just. It is just

Lori: materialism,

Joe: material, materialism, and materialistic people just thinking they’ve got to have something that big [00:12:00] or life’s not good.

Lori: Yeah,

Joe: something that big and fancy or you’re not

Lori: worthy, and this gift will make your life great.

Joe: That’s the worst part of it.

Lori: Yes. So I think this one can be tricky for families. especially when maybe they aren’t as close knit, and you’ve got a lot of different personalities. So you’ve got some kids, the parents may be giving the really extravagant high end gifts and you’ve got some. Members of the same family and they’re trying to raise their kids more simply not to expect, these big extravagant gifts trying to keep ’em off technology. And that can cause a source of conflict.

Don’t let it take you out. Don’t be surprised by it. know the landscape, like you said, the situational awareness before you go into it and prepare your kids. But it is hard when other kids are getting these amazing gifts and yours are getting more reasonable gifts.

a child doesn’t understand. So maybe you do gifts in a different way At a different time. Each family will be unique in that, but that is something [00:13:00] that plays a part in. stirring up some strife in a holiday.

Joe: Well, it happens for the kids at school too.

’cause they hear and see all the things of so and so got such and such. And I mean, it’s just the comparison thing is such a hard thing. And at that age, they just don’t understand. They don’t have the. Mental capacity to think through, well, their family’s different or whatever. So it’s, it is something that we need to be aware of, but we also need to help kids and grandkids understand what love is and what it’s supposed to look like, what Christmas is really about, but kind of prepare their little hearts.

Lori: What is the saying? They need your presence more than your. Presence. Presence.

Joe: That’s correct.

Lori: So, and that’s your physical presence versus your

Joe: gift presence?

Lori: Material presence. Yes. and I, and I tell you, I, I don’t know too many kids that wouldn’t rather have your presence, your physical presence, than just Oh yeah.

Materialism is [00:14:00] though, I think a huge mm-hmm. Threat to families in so many ways. And part of it is, okay, you’ve got the advertising coming to your kids all the time. Mm-hmm. And it is designed to manipulate. Okay. So if you research an item, you think maybe I’m interested in this, and you research it just a little bit, you don’t even have to spend 30 seconds looking at it on the online and you decide you don’t want it, but suddenly it’s popping up in your feed.

All the time. And, and I think there’s some psychological warfare in that. Yeah. Because they’re trying to convince you to doubt that your decision to not want that was the right thing. They’re just gonna keep putting it in front of you. Putting it in front of you. Like that’s the popular thing. You gotta do this.

our kids aren’t equipped to handle that, but it’s coming at ’em anyway. Well, like. We don’t watch tv, but a lot of the kids shows, if you watch some of the little kids shows with them and you see some of what they do there, some of the things they put on the shows [00:15:00] about getting gifts and.

Joe: Different things, but really the kids’ commercials during some of their little shows are something else too. They’re really going after the kids there as well.

Lori: Another problem I think, with the comparison and jealousy is it it can make us, as people, we can spend more time at work and away from our families. ’cause we’re trying to make more money so we can acquire more things or possessions.

Joe: Yep. And a lot of times by doing that, a lot of families.

They end up going into debt, trying to pay way too much for Christmas, out of their budget, and all of a sudden the next thing that happens, you have financial disagreements and arguments over money and what we should be spending and what we shouldn’t be spending. that does not help in the holidays, but that needs to be prepared ahead of time and say, here’s our budget.

We need to stick to our budget no matter what the ads are doing We can figure this out. [00:16:00]

Lori: Y’all. Can I say that there is not. a material object out there that can bring you lasting joy, fill the hole in your heart and just, Answer all your longings. Okay. That’s Jesus Christ.

Joe: Amen.

Lori: And you can’t put him in a box. Nope. So one article I read, said parents can become so busy making money to buy more stuff that they sacrifice meaningful time with their children. They may try to compensate for not spending time with their kids by buying them lots of gifts, which can instill attitudes of selfishness, self-absorption, and entitlement in children.

And that’s just a vicious cycle.

Joe: It is, and I’ve watched it play out over and over, and it’s a sad thing to watch because you talk to a lot of people as they get older in life and they’re not sitting there saying, I wish I had more stuff. What they say is, I wish I had more time with my dad, or I wish I had more time with my mom or my grandpa, or whatever it is.

with family, there’s. That [00:17:00] longing for the fellowship more than the gifts. And if you turn around and ask a whole bunch of people 10 years, 20 years later, after they were kids, what they remember the most, it’s typically trips that you took with them. Time you spent with them.

going fishing with ’em, whatever. Just little activities, camping, that’s the things they remember. They can’t remember the gifts they got. I mean, very rare. Made you, made me think about it. I’m like, okay, I lived with my parents for 18 years and I can remember a handful of gifts. But I can remember a ton of moments, experiences.

So that’s, that’s how that works. But the enemy will come in and try to steal that. By making parents work extra, go into debt to buy gifts that you’re not gonna remember anyway.

Lori: And here’s the thing, those gifts, I don’t believe I have a single one of them still.

They either wore out or our house was robbed and they were stolen. they were for a season, but I don’t have them now. The [00:18:00] memory of getting them of that shared experience is good. But

Joe: so the thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy, and I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 10 10, which is one of my favorite verses, but. There again, the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. So he’s, he’s trying to do that to any memories, any union you have with Christ, any godly focus. He’s after all that and he comes in and he just messes with families and that’s one of the ways he does it.

comparison kills is one of the things we talk about a lot Nothing steals, kills, or destroys our happiness like comparison.

Lori: That’s true, man.

Joe: Mm-hmm

Lori: Man.

Joe: Yep.

Lori: Here’s another one, and I know this is something that y’all will really work on at the camp with these guys.

Yeah. Sometimes we think we’ve forgiven people, but the holiday gatherings are kind of like the litmus test. Now you’re gonna [00:19:00] be confined with them in a sometimes slightly stressful. Situation. A lot going on, a lot of people around. How are you gonna respond?

Joe: And so that is one of those things that if you know you’re going into a family situation where there is a person or two that’s gonna kind of push your buttons, you need to be praying about that before y’all get together so it doesn’t ruin everybody at the family gatherings. it can make for a bad day for you personally, but it could for everybody else around if you don’t handle that.

Right. So just simply praying before you go is part of that situational awareness. And be prepared.

Lori: Yeah, just be prepared not to pick up that grudge or bitterness or unforgiveness or whatever those feelings may come up. Before you even step through the door. that’s true. Memorize the scripture.

Put one in your pocket if you can’t memorize it. Pull it out and read it. Sneak off to the corner and read the, okay, now I can do this again. I can [00:20:00] hang in there. So

Joe: that’s it.

Lori: A good scripture that you might wanna use is, be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other just as Christ as in Christ, God forgave you.

Joe: Amen.

Lori: Ephesians 4 32.

Joe: Yep, that’d be a good one to have tucked away handy if this is gonna be your situation where there’s some of that best thing is just prepare yourself ahead of time and you’ll be fine.

Lori: What if, Joe, you think you’ve prepared and you get there and you didn’t prepare enough? Like what in the moment can you do.

To not pick that up.

Joe: probably the best thing to do would be to, like Gloria said go to another room for a minute and just quickly pray to Jesus and Holy Spirit and say, Hey, I need extra help here. Guard my tongue, guard my heart, those kind of things, to be able to have the right words to say when you get back out there.

So it’s not ’cause words can hurt. Words can bless and so you just need to pray for wisdom and discernment on what to [00:21:00] say, when to say it and how to say it.

Lori: Yes. I like the visual of praying the cross of Christ between me. And whoever, you know, if I’ve gotta look around the cross that Christ was crucified on.

Mm-hmm. To see that person, it kind of tames my tongue. There you go. Puts me in my place real quick. What’s Satan can attack us, is just through the worry and fear. Yep. I think you just have to sometimes unplug from the things that are causing you to worry or be fearful.

Joe: And all those things that are worry and fear come from just lack of trust and God’s in control. ’cause a lot of times we think we’re in control and he’s, he’s laughing at us while we think that, but he’s like, come to me and I’ll walk you through this. a lot of people, especially during the holidays, well, the best thing to do is just avoid the news and avoid all the junk that’s talking about all that stuff on a constant basis.

If you just eliminate that from your seeing and hearing, your stress level go down [00:22:00] instantly, and we’re not saying bury your head in the sand and ignore. World events and things going on, but be reasonable.

Lori: A steady stream of those pouring into your day.

Joe: No, no, not at all. And too many people do and they walk around doom and gloom. And especially in the holidays. ’cause there’s enough other stresses that’s just like playing pile on.

Lori: Let me just say too, that social media is not your source of news.

Joe: No.

Lori: Facebook, Instagram. X. I think I said that right. I was about to say Twitter. Yeah. Either way. YouTube, not even YouTube. They are not your sources of news, So you might have to just cut those out. Yep.

Joe: For sure.

It’s Isaiah 41 10. It says, so do not fear for I’m with you. Do not be dismayed for I’m your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I’ll uphold you with my righteous right hand. Just doesn’t get any better than that, and that’s the best place [00:23:00] to be, focused on to avoid fear is just knowing who’s in charge and who’s got you.

Lori: Another verse on fear I love is second Timothy one, seven, for God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love, and of a sound mind.

Joe: Amen to that. That’s a powerful verse.

Lori: Sometimes I wonder about the sound mind part, but I’m trying. don’t let the holidays make you crazy.

You’ve been given a sound mind.

Joe: Yes, for sure. I’ll remind you of that in a couple weeks.

Lori: sometimes we have to just refer back to point number one and avoid the busyness and distraction so that we can stay focused on God, because that’s the remedy to fear.

Joe: That trust is the key to it all.

Lori: another tool that Satan uses against families at this time of year is just broken relationships and loneliness. Satan loves for us to have broken relationships, and to be lonely. when we’re lonely and longing for family and friendship, we can be led to form unhealthy relationships.

You know, we’re looking for that. Anywhere [00:24:00] we can get it. And you always read, about kids that join gangs because they don’t want to be doing all that stuff, but that’s a family to them. And they don’t have a family unit any other way. So they join a gang. the holidays. Accentuates long loneliness.

Joe: Yeah. the holidays kind of, especially because, somebody might have lost a loved one within the past year or two, and so the holidays always kind of bring some of the memories they had. But it’s kind of sad because they miss that person. And what the enemy does is he likes to isolate people and.

Kind of disturbs that feeling of loneliness by having them be isolated. And so it just, like, you’re kind of in a little bit of a spiral down anyway, but when you get isolated, you really start spiraling deeper. And, the enemy does love that. And he wants you to feel alone and isolated and not like there’s anybody that loves you or cares for [00:25:00] you.

God has always existed in relationship.

Joe: And so that’s part of why we should be with people and not alone or isolated.

Lori: Well, Psalm 68, 6 says, God sets the solitary in families. So he doesn’t intend for you to be alone. That’s not his. Mm-hmm.

His will for you. But I also wanna say the burden falls on those of us who aren’t lonely. To seek out those who are lonely. And bring them into. Our family.

Joe: some type of fellowship, something, you know, just to keep ’em from being isolated because the enemy goes after you hard when you’re isolated, no matter who you are.

Isolation is his ticket to basically have his way with you and your heart and your mind and

Lori: yeah,

Joe: he just messes with people. And it happens easier in the holidays ’cause people are a little more emotional. For different reasons and just the stresses and all those things. So he’ll come after us hard during the holidays.

So we just, if we’re prepared and know that that’s an opportunity [00:26:00] that he’s looking for, we got an opportunity to prevent it.

Lori: if you feel like some loneliness is coming on, find somebody to reach out to

Joe: Yes.

Lori: there’s 1,000,001 ways to reach out to people.

Joe: Yep.

Lori: do it safely.

Joe: Yes.

Lori: honestly, the best way to reach out to someone and not feel lonely is go to church.

Joe: Amen. That’s a good place to go find some fellowship.

Lori: but that doesn’t mean that you can be in church and not be lonely. No. if you are a church member. It’s your responsibility to make sure People feel welcome and included and that this is their family there.

Joe: That’s right.

Lori: get outta your pew and go say hi.

Meet and greet. depression.

Joe: Yeah. as the spiral keeps going down on the loneliness, it can end up in the depression stage as well. If he gets you alone, isolated, there’s just things that, I mean, chemically in the body, cause some depression and it’s gotta be worked through sometimes.

But being alone, being by yourself. Makes that even [00:27:00] harder.

Lori: Comparison and jealousy. The unforgiveness and resentment, the worry, any one of them or all of them together can spiral you into depression. it’s hard to enjoy the holidays

With your family.

Joe: Yeah.

Lori: If you’re depressed and depression is real. Yeah. and I don’t, I mean, we’re not saying that. There couldn’t also be a, a real medical chemical.

Joe: Mm-hmm.

Lori: Reason that you would need to be, have some more treatment. But I’m just, we’re talking about the general

Joe: Yeah.

Lori: Depression that a lot of people feel around the holidays.

Joe: Yeah. So there’s,

Lori: because it just didn’t live up to their expectations.

Joe: Yeah. And there’s a whole lot of people that you’ll talk to, they. It’s just nonstop. Go, go, go till December 25th, for example. And then December 26th, they’re sitting around looking at each other going, what happened? Did we miss something?

I don’t feel any that, it just feels like such a letdown. Yes. And there’s a lot of people that mm-hmm. That, that happens to. And that’s when some depression kicks in. Mm-hmm. For [00:28:00] sure. ’cause there’s a lot of people sitting there going. All that hype and there’s just nothing to show for it. Yeah. I’m just wore out and, and it’s over and it’s over.

Lori: Everybody’s moved on to something else. Yes. there’s a JA verse. There’s a verse one John four four that says, you are from God, little children and you have overcome and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Joe: And the he in you is Jesus. And the he in the world is the enemy, Satan. And so that’s a good verse to remember as you’re maybe walking along thinking, man, I just feel defeated.

But that’s a, that’s a go-to at any time just to remember who’s in you and who’s in charge.

Lori: Another article that I found says, I’m gonna, I’m just gonna read a couple paragraphs because it was really good. Mm-hmm. So it’s the ultimate, Emily is the. Ultimate enemy is [00:29:00] not a human or physical adversary, but Satan himself, he is the one behind these threats.

Satan wants to break up our marriages and undermine our families, and he will use everything available to try to accomplish his goals. Our families can survive Satan’s ploys even if our society is caving. Into it, but we must recognize Satan’s devices and tactics. The Bible tells us, be sober, be vigilant because your adversary, the devil, walks about like a roaring lion seeking who he may devour.

One Peter five, eight. We must be alert even in the holidays.

Joe: Amen.

Lori: We are not going to give Satan a foothold. This year during the holiday season. make that your decision right now.

Joe: you need to just be prepared and be alert

Lori: and then armor up.

Be alert and. Happy holidays. There you go.

well we’re gonna wrap this up now. we hope that’s given you some things so that you can start preparing [00:30:00] as we start looking at travel plans, Thanksgiving’s coming up quickly, and all those things. Just start getting, a mindset

That says I’m going to get through this without letting Satan cause any grief in my family. we always appreciate if you like or share or comment on or do all three. we really like that. We appreciate that very much.

Feel so compelled. Please do so.

Joe: There you go. And if you’ve got anything you wanna send us, you can contact us through the email and just let us know. We’d try to answer that. And if it’s prayers, we’ll pray for you.

Lori: Exactly. Now this isn’t the end,

Joe: but it’s the end for now.

Lori: See you next time on another My Mornings with Jesus and Joe.