How to Have Hope in Tough Holidays
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Facing disappointment in a hard holiday season? FamilyLife President David Robbins and his wife Meg grapple with how to have hope through grueling realities.
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| 0:00.6 | So Christmas is coming up. |
| 0:02.4 | So exciting. |
| 0:03.8 | You love Christmas. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey, do you love it? |
| 0:05.6 | You really do. |
| 0:06.4 | And I'm not gonna get into why. |
| 0:07.7 | But do you remember our first Christmas in California? |
| 0:11.3 | Yes. |
| 0:12.4 | What do you remember? |
| 0:13.7 | That we were all by ourselves. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, we were in seminary. |
| 0:16.8 | We moved to California from, you know, |
| 0:18.8 | grew up in Ohio and we literally were on staff |
| 0:21.4 | with athletes in action in Nebraska. |
| 0:23.8 | Decided that God had called us long term to ministry. |
| 0:27.7 | So we should go get trained. |
| 0:29.4 | So we ended up in seminary in California. |
| 0:31.7 | So we had two friends, Bob and Judy, remember? |
| 0:34.9 | Yes. |
| 0:35.7 | And they invited us to their house. |
| 0:37.0 | We had nobody. |
| 0:37.8 | We had nowhere to go for Christmas. |
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