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I want to remind us all today to not be complainers and fault finders. Oh, man. Really?

Really? We don't need to be complainers and fault finders. See, it's easy to see what's wrong

in a situation. It's easy to see what could be done better. You know, naturally, we tend to look

at the negative, just our natural minds tend to always gravitate to the negative. And it causes

us to find fault. But we don't want to be complainers and fault finders because we know that it doesn't please

God. You know, we're all guilty of this. I'll be the first one to raise my hand, okay? Because sometimes

it feels good to complain. You get it off your chest. You're just venting. It feels good. Why do we complain? That's one reason.

It feels kind of good sometime, okay? Let's just get real about it. We've all thought, all right, just get it off my chest and then I'll be okay.

Or we think, or I think, sometimes if I complain, I can change the

situation. I'll go to Joel and I'll tell him why this isn't right and why we shouldn't do it

this way. Because I think I'm going to change the situation, right? But you don't change a situation

by complaining, by finding fault. You usually make the situation worse. Like I said, we can all

think these thoughts of how we could do it better. But we've got to learn that we don't have to give life to these thoughts.

You see, when we give life to these negative thoughts, we create a more negative environment.

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