Hey, I'm Jeff Kavans. How do you simplify your life?

How do you study the Bible?

All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids,

we're gonna talk about the faith and life in general.

It's the Jeff Kaven Show.

This is the Jeff Kaven Show. I'm Jeff Kavans and welcome. Glad that you could join me.

I am sitting here and full disclosure it's getting close to

Christmas and we have been getting all kinds of cards and and all kinds of letters in the mail and I'm sure that you get them

too and the question is what do you do with them?

Some people put them all over the refrigerator and some people put them on a door and others just pile them in a bowl after they read them.

That's what we do.

And I'm looking at that bowl right now.

And I think it's interesting what people write about their families at the end of the year.

You know, they write about how everyone is doing in their family.

And some of it is prayer request, you you know things aren't going so well and in

some it's a little bit more difficult there's really some tragedies going on but the most of them

for the most part people are writing about the great successes of their family

and all the good things that their kids are doing and one of the things that I have noticed over the years about these letters is that oftentimes

when people read them, at least what they tell me, is that they become a little discouraged

because it looks like everybody else is doing so much better than they are.

You know, they read the letter from their sister, their brother, and it gives a list of all the accomplishments of their kids, and then

they compare it to what's going on in their own family, and they feel a little bit down.

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