Hey everybody, this is Andy Wood, and I'm the pastor here at Saddleback Church, and this is our podcast.

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Now, today we're talking about relationships, and particularly those relationships in our lives that are challenging.

And so I thought we could start off with a little story from our family, some challenges that we've navigated, okay? Now everybody knows that sibling relationships can be a bit challenging, and it further

complicates the issue when the youngest child in the family comes into the world feeling

like they're in charge.

Anybody else have this experience where the youngest child feels like they rule the roost.

So they have complete disregard for birth order.

It does not mean anything to them that they're the smallest in stature.

Like none of that matters. And this was our situation.

We have, our youngest is our daughter, Carus.

And when she came into the world, she was just born leader, ready to take on whoever

might want to go toe to toe with her.

Now, when Carus was little, I used to always say that she was the epitome of

sugar and spice because she was the cutest, sweetest, most endearing child that ever was. But you can

tell by that photo, she's got some sass, right? She's a bit cheeky. She's not afraid to back down. And so, um, there was this one day

that Caris was interacting in a not so pleasant way with her older brother, Sammy. And Sammy was

just finally exasperated by the whole situation. And so he comes to me for backup.

He's like, Mom, help me out.

And so Andy and I have been working with our kids on how to do a proper apology.

And so I called Carus over.

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