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

continue in our series called Strategies for Stressful Times. In these lessons, Rick shares biblical

wisdom for navigating difficult and stressful times so that you can experience God's peace and thrive in any situation.

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You can find out more by going to pastor rick.com or by texting the word hope to 800,600,0004. Now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a

message called How to Trust God when you don't like the changes in your life. As your pastor, I am deeply

concerned about how you're handling the trauma and the stress of all of the changes

that have taken place in your life in the past 18 months.

Now, certainly the global pandemic of COVID changed everything, but there's a lot of other

changes going on in the world at the same time.

And that's why I started this short series a couple weeks ago that I'm calling strategies for stressful times.

Strategies for stressful times. And we're looking at tips and strategies and skills from the scripture

on how do you handle when things aren't good.

The first message, you remember a couple weeks ago, I did a message called Finding the Strength

to Keep Going when you're emotionally worn out. Anybody ever felt that way? Emotionally worn out?

Yeah. And then last week we looked at how do you be happy no matter what

happens? And we talked about how happiness is a choice. It doesn't depend on happenings. You're as

happy as you choose to be. If you're unhappy, you can't blame your wife or your husband or anybody

else. You're as happy as you choose to be. I know people in much worse situations than us that have

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