Today on Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, we're going to start a new series that I know you're going to

love. It's called You Make Me Crazy. Now, in this series, Rick gives us biblical wisdom to help us

in every aspect of our relationships, even dealing with the crazy makers in our lives.

Now, here's Pastor Rick Warren with part one of a

message called Six Keys to Peace and 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. It was right around lunchtime and he 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,

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 problems will be dramatically reduced in your life.

It's all about wisdom, knowing how to handle things and not be foolish.

Now, nowhere are we more foolish than in our relationships.

We foolishly treat people in ways that are really counterproductive. In fact, a lot of times,

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