Jason F. Wright: Helping Each Other Home
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4.8 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Best-selling author Jason F. Wright is a fan of people. It is apparent in the way his face lights up when he talks about those who have impacted his life, some of them strangers he met only briefly. On today's episode, he explains how his passion for people and their stories began in his childhood home, thanks in large part to the example of his parents who taught him to believe in the goodness of others.
"Open your eyes. When you walk out your front door every morning, open your eyes as wide as you can. Look left, look right, look in front of you and make sure you're seeing the people that the Lord is putting in your path. Because if you see them, you can serve them."
Show Notes:
2:57- The Beginning of the "Christmas Jars" Tradition
11:08- Restoration
12:11- Stories of the Jars
16:27- Belief in Humanity
20:45- Help Getting Home
24:45- Giving a Lift
27:46- Fiction Vs. Non-Fiction
31:33- The Power of Stories
33:48- The Importance of Authenticity
38:39- What Does It Mean To Be "All In" the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
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| 0:00.0 | We've all heard it said that the Christmas spirit is something we should carry in our hearts year round. |
| 0:05.6 | I certainly hope that's true this week because otherwise today's episode will get you there |
| 0:11.3 | arguably too soon. But I also wanted to let you know that this week we will be releasing a special |
| 0:18.0 | Christmasy bonus episode of All in featuring the incomparable Christen Chinoweth. I just found out |
| 0:25.3 | though that if you aren't subscribed to the podcast bonus episodes don't automatically download. |
| 0:31.7 | So make sure you're subscribed to go ahead and click that little button so that when this bonus |
| 0:36.8 | episode goes live you'll be the first to know. In 2005 Jason Wright released a book that started |
| 0:44.8 | a tradition for families everywhere including my very own family. Your family may have a Christmas |
| 0:52.2 | jar of its own. The idea was simple throughout the year your family places spare change in a jar |
| 0:58.4 | and then the week of Christmas carefully selects a family who might be in need of a little extra |
| 1:04.2 | money or a little extra love. The book became a New York Times bestseller and the idea of Christmas |
| 1:10.8 | jars well it went viral and this year it becomes a movie. Jason Wright is a New York Times Wall |
| 1:18.8 | Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author and speaker. His work has appeared in over 100 |
| 1:25.7 | newspapers, magazines and websites across the United States including the Washington Times, |
| 1:31.8 | the Chicago Tribune Forbes, CNN.com and Fox News.com. Jason and his wife Cody live in Virginia's |
| 1:39.7 | beautiful Shinandoah Valley. They are the parents of two girls and two boys. |
| 1:47.7 | This is All-in an LDS living podcast where we ask the question what does it really mean to be |
| 1:53.6 | All-in the gospel of Jesus Christ. I'm Morgan Jones and I am so grateful to have Jason Wright |
| 1:59.6 | with me today. Jason, welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for having me. |
| 2:03.8 | Well I am so excited about this partially because it's an anticipation of the Christmas |
| 2:10.8 | jars movie which is coming out. How cool to have a book that you wrote turned into a movie. Is |
| 2:16.5 | this your first one that's been turned into a film? It is. Yeah it was my first book and it's been |
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