December is such a special month, and I always love to do something extra special on Joe

for my favorite people, you, my listeners. So all month long, I'll be highlighting some favorites

from the OG series that launched this podcast way back in the start called Five Word Prayers.

I know many of you will be very happy about that.

These short, usually five minutes or less shows are perfect for a busy holiday season

to bring you the hope and encouragement we all so desperately need.

So here we go.

All right, so I know I'm talking to friends out there who have some siblings you are at odds with. Some in-laws you have a difficult time handling, maybe even some

kids or moms and dads. We have a wide variety of listeners on the show, literally teens to friends in

their late 70s. And so while the players might

look different and circumstances as well, it is a widely universal issue for all of us to have

family members we don't agree with, get along with, or honestly even like all that much.

Yeah, I just said that. Most of you know we are in the midst of raising three kids. And while our kids are

respectful and share many of our beliefs, we have young people in our home that we don't agree with

about everything. Our entire house is not 100% on the same page politically. We don't all like

the same kind of music. We see things from different

lenses and sometimes that results in a debate to some degree. My belief is that as parents, the goal

is not to raise robots. So many reasons that is a no and not effective in the long run. And we can talk

about that later. But the goal is to bring up

kids with a strong enough core and have a family with a strong enough core that we can have

differences and stay strong as a unit still. Extended family is a bit trickier, I think, and all of us

have people in this category that we are either related to by blood or marry into that we have a

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