Hello everybody and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

This is the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

Now today we're continuing into the new year,

and we're digging deeper into one of life's biggest questions,

Does My Life Really Matter?

In today's message, Rick's going to continue his powerful series,

Live Your Calling, What on Earth Am I Here For? In it, you'll discover how living out God's

purpose for your life brings real meaning, direction, and joy no matter where you're starting

from. And now here's Rick with the final part of a message

titled called to be love. When I was five and a half years old, my sister was two years old.

My dad was a pastor in Portland, Oregon. He built the church there. One day my dad and my sister and I were in the car

together. My mom was at home. And in those days, there was no such thing as car seats. In fact,

there weren't even strap seat belts. It was just the little belt around the front.

And they didn't even have seat belts in the middle. It was just like on the two sides.

And so we were in the car together and my dad was driving and I was in the front seat with my seatbelt

on and my baby sister, two years old, was in the backseat with the seat belt on. And as we got

ready to go across a bridge, one of the many bridges in the city of Portland

across the Columbia River, as dad started to go across that bridge, a car swerved in front of

our car.

And in order to not hit it, my dad jerked the car and did a quick right turn to avoid being

hit and hitting that car. And when we did,

the car fish tailed. And when it fished, the back door of that car, of our car opened, and I watched

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