Over the years I've kept in a variety of little journals and notebooks a list, a running list of things that God has provided were done for our family.

Times he's protected us.

Times he provided some books for us or clothes or a car.

Times he provided patience for a very stressful situation. One time my wife and I were at the

hospital in the emergency room. We thought we were all alone kind of surrounded by a bunch of

strangers and then I heard a

co-worker's voice just 20 feet away and it brought assurance to me. God

provides he's so faithful and I hope you're able to get to a point of seeing his provision in all sorts of ways in your life.

I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta.

He's the Vice President of the Parenting and Youth Department here at Focus on the Family and we're going to turn

back to a conversation Jim Daly and I had with Tricia Goyer who spent a year

trying to get herself and her family to stop complaining and it involves some thankfulness.

And here she tells more of her story.

Tricia, let's get to the practicals of your grumble-free one-year project. One thing is context. I mean, and I just

know as a dad of two boys, I mean oftentimes what we would miss Gene and I as

parents is we'd say do this, do this for a year,

but we wouldn't give them context.

And you had a good spiritual insight about the grumbling issue.

I think it dealt with the spies of Israel.

But describe how, and I'm sure you use that with the kids to say let's look at a biblical

understanding of grumbling.

So how do you apply that?

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