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Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Finding Joy in a Crazy World (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.84.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Humorist Ken Davis will encourage you to find joy by embracing a lighthearted attitude, even when your life isn’t perfect. He explains how God helped him overcome his own physical disabilities and find self-acceptance by understanding that he only had to be the best version of himself – just the way God made him to be.

 

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0:00.0

Jasmine knows the devastation of loss all too well. Her premature son died after four months in the hospital,

0:07.7

and then she experienced a miscarriage. It was hard to worship. It was hard to pray, but by listening to this

0:15.9

podcast, focus on the family, it helped me, you know, think that I'm not the only one who's going

0:22.0

through this. Jasmine says we were a voice of calm and truth in her chaos. Today, she wants to

0:29.2

equip other hurting families before it's too late. By listening to this podcast or a focus on family,

0:36.1

it will help you tremendously with your faith and how to grow

0:40.2

and move forward. I'm Jim Daly. We need your help to deliver hope and joy to more families

0:45.9

like Jasmine. But time is running out to see your gift doubled through our matching opportunity.

0:51.9

Give generously today at FocusOn the family.com slash family,

0:56.3

or call 800 the letter A and the word family.

1:01.3

One of the reasons for you joy that you have beyond the fact that God has given us this

1:05.6

crazy world to live in and beyond the fact that you're special and unique is that you're

1:10.8

you. He didn't make any mistakes.

1:13.6

Nobody else can do what he put you here to do. Nobody. So find out what it is and go for it.

1:21.7

That's Ken Davis, and we have more encouragement from him coming up today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly.

1:28.6

I'm John Fuller and thanks for joining us.

1:31.0

Well, as you said last time, John, Ken Davis has been on this show dozens of times,

1:35.7

but we've never aired this specific message, which he gave to a group of high schoolers

1:40.9

and young adults in the mid-1980s.

1:43.6

And if you have children or grandchildren in that age group, you'll definitely want them to hear it.

1:49.7

And really, it also applies to any of us who feel a bit insecure at times.

1:54.6

We're including Ken's presentation in a free four-hour collection of audio downloads called

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