This is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the broadcast ministry of Pastor Rick Warren.

Today, we continue in the series Essentials for Living.

In these lessons, Pastor Rick shares the power you need to live on,

the principles you need to live by, and the purpose you need to live for,

so that you're truly living and not just existing.

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Right now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with the final part of a message called

How to Connect with People.

I could not count the number of times that either KRI have felt like walking out of our marriage,

particularly in the early years.

I just couldn't count it because there were so many times we just thought,

this is not worth it.

We're just from such different planets and we're so different.

This marriage could never possibly work.

And we were both tempted many, many times.

But we didn't. Why?

Because we had made a commitment.

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