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🗓️ 30 November 2023
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How can you find ways to celebrate things as a parent? Jim Daly talks with Courtney Ellis about ways she's learned to celebrate spiritual progress in her kids. Plus, Danny and John share how to enjoy seeing your kids mature in their relationship with God.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you like to celebrate and commemorate the big moments of life? |
| 0:06.4 | Well, regardless of your personality, we want to encourage you to celebrate progress that you make as a mom or a dad. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny |
| 0:14.8 | Werta who heads up our parenting team and I wonder Danny as your kids have aged |
| 0:19.4 | have there been moments where you and Heather kind of high-fived each other either quietly as a couple or maybe with the kids as well? |
| 0:27.0 | That kind of parenting win? |
| 0:29.0 | The parenting win, I love it. |
| 0:30.0 | I would say, you know, we've hugged each other before and say hey this this is going |
| 0:35.8 | good job I can tell it's a very emotive family yeah that you know I'm a |
| 0:40.3 | celebrating Latino right John and so you just live large anyway. |
| 0:44.8 | Every moment is celebrating. |
| 0:46.2 | We love to celebrate in our home. |
| 0:48.4 | I'd say I'm more the celebrator. |
| 0:50.4 | My wife is very task focused. And she's been learning how to just pause and |
| 0:55.0 | celebrate and we've needed that task focus side of who she is and it's part of |
| 0:59.9 | being a team. She and I have really worked hard at being intentional with our kids and through all |
| 1:08.8 | the imperfections and all the moments where it hasn't gone just right. |
| 1:14.2 | We've had plenty of those. |
| 1:16.5 | And to look back and to think through how God has been through it all with us and has constantly been there is something to |
| 1:26.3 | celebrate in a big way and that our kids love Jesus. We celebrate that and the other |
| 1:31.4 | day we were driving and I said honey both Alex and Lexi love Jesus |
| 1:36.8 | And we just looked at each other and smiled. Yeah. Yeah, those are rich moments and we want to grab onto those and commemorate those. To that end let's go |
| 1:45.1 | ahead and hear part of a conversation with Courtney Ellis. She's back and |
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