Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe God has amazing

things in your future. I hope you enjoy this message.

You may be seated. I just want to encourage all of us today to keep healthy

connections with our families. You know, going forward in 2017, we need to make

sure that we're making a personal investment into our family members, that

we're building strong bonds and we're creating trust and security in our

families. It's so easy in this culture with everything that we have to do and

all the technology that we have to get things done more quickly. We have to make

sure that we don't just breeze by one another and not make personal connections.

There's so much to do. There's so many people to see. It's up to us to make the

choices and priorities to connect with those that we love. You know, Joel and I

have to make it a priority to spend personal quality time together. Now,

Joel and I are together a lot. We work together. I'm not talking about

coexisting in a home. I'm not talking about working in a task together. I'm

talking about making investments in the life of people that you love. Making

personal time to find out what they like, to be a part of what they like, to

enjoy their gifts, enjoy their talents. You know, Joel and I, we love to take

walks together. We love to ride our bikes. We'll go on a date night every now and

then. Sometimes we just get in the car and we drive nowhere. But these are times

that we have created to just be together. Not to talk about work, not to

necessarily talk about a problem or an issue that we're facing, but to just be

together. Maybe not even talk at all. Maybe just connecting in the presence of

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