Hello everyone and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry that's here to

encourage and inspire you every day. And today we're continuing our series called Awesome Relationships.

In it, Rick Warren shares practical ways to help you take your relationships with family, friends,

coworkers, and even God, from ordinary to extraordinary.

And this is a series you don't want to miss.

All right, let's join Rick now for part one of a message called Six Keys to Peace in Relationships.

Now, there was a pastor this last week who will remain unnamed to protect the guilty.

And he went over to visit an elderly woman in our church. She had lost her husband a number of years ago.

She's in her 80s. And he went over to just pay her visit and he sat there in her living

room and was right around lunchtime and was kind of hungry and she had a big bowl of peanuts

and as they talked he ate one and of course she can't eat just one and he started eating more

and more and when they finally finished he realized he'd eaten the entire bowl of peanuts.

He felt a little embarrassed by it and he said to this elderly woman, he said, you know,

I'm really sorry I've eaten all your peanuts.

And she said, oh, don't worry, pastor, she said, I can't chew on him after I've sucked

the chocolate off.

He said, you know, I felt a little foolish.

Now, we all do foolish things from time to time.

Usually unintentionally, sometimes intentionally.

You'd have a lot fewer problems if you were less foolish and more wise.

Wisdom doesn't get rid of your problems, but wisdom definitely minimizes your problems.

If you know how to respond wisely to situations, your

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