Man, welcome out to all of you today at those of you who are at our physical locations that actually can meet welcome out great to have you with us for those of you who are with us at church online from all across the globe

It's always great to have you and then those of you who are maybe on an archive message on our YouTube or some other platform great to have you with us as well. My name is Sam Roberts and I'm one of the directional leadership team members here at Life Church.

And I have been with Pastor Craig serving alongside him now. This is my 22nd year serving alongside Pastor Craig. Yep. So what that means is that we've served together through a lot of things that the world has dished out things like recession war actual wars terrorist attacks and now a pandemic and I will say this it's awesome to fall into the leadership of Pastor Craig in a normal circumstance.

But as you've seen over the last month month and a half and we as a staff have felt very personally the what we found and what I've seen over the last 22 years with Pastor Craig is the bigger the challenge the better he leads.

And I love the fact that we collectively have a pastor and the leader that leads so well in the face of adversity. So I honor and very grateful for him and his leadership of our church.

And like manner I'm also grateful for my wife Jamie who is actually the inspiration for my message today and if I'm being truthful she actually is probably responsible for a little over 60% at least of the content you're going to hear today.

So I am the mouthpiece delivering her wisdom straight into your life today as she delivers wisdom into my life quite often so I'm very very grateful for her.

We are in week two of this series called stay positive and man isn't the series very very timely for the time that we're in right now because so many times negativity can just try to rule our lives we need to be able to stay positive and today we're going to talk about gratitude.

Man gratitude something we really really really need to have I don't know about you but during the time when you're in a stay at home order or you're under quarantine and you're with those people that you're close to me your family or sometimes you start to learn a whole lot of stuff about the people you're quarantined with you know what I mean.

In fact I've learned quite a bit as well and I'll just kind of share something with you I have five children but I during quarantine I actually learned that I actually have a kid I didn't even know I had a sixth kid and now I've to be fair I've never seen this kid but I do know his name his name is nobody and he does a lot of crap around my house.

Let me give you an example for instance because nobody drank the last of the milk and then put the carton back in the fridge and nobody peed on the toilet seat and nobody left the food on this plate that they got left on the countertop and nobody threw the trash on the floor when the trash can is right there.

I'll tell you if I find this nobody character I am going to be he going to be in some time out you know what I mean hold on you mean you got you and nobody too.

Maybe everybody has a little nobody in their life somewhere right it's kind of like having an elf on the shelf but like all year long you never know what you're going to get.

You just walk around the corner and no tell what nobody's done but I tell you what it's sure enough to get a complaining on about it right we we complain about all sorts of things in our life and if you're I tell you it's crazy my Gen Z kids they got a whole term in Gen Z for people to complain kind of those people you know those people they're calling Karen's.

Now I'm sorry if your name is Karen and an entire generation is now labeled you as this I didn't do it blame Gen Z for this okay but here's the in the case you don't have a Gen Z translator living in home let me just try to explain what a Karen is via a story my daughter works at Starbucks and recently she had some I come to drive through and say yes I need a hot cold brew my daughters like well actually we don't serve hot cold brew but I'm going to try to explain what I'm going to do with this.

Well actually we don't serve hot cold brew but we do have cold cold brew or or I could get you maybe a hot coffee or some espresso shots no I've ordered this at many Starbucks do your job right.

Okay I'll be right back let me check with my shift manager goes to the shift manager do we serve hot cold brew by chance no we don't serve that what do I do just give her a black coffee okay great come on up to the front we have that ready order ready for you comes up to the front.

My daughter hands her a black pipe place Grande.

Sip and she says see hot cold brew get it right next time and drives off as if my daughter is the idiot.

This is where Gen Z would be like hope you enjoy that hot cold brew Karen that's how I works with Gen Z is right people complain they complain about hot cold brew but I we can play about all sorts of things not just like hot cold brew but we can play

about the weather is too hot too cold is too rainy had rained enough we need more rain people complain about the pandemic why are people wearing so many masks why are they putting all these

orders and play this is crazy they complain the other way it's like people should be wearing masks why are people just out and about what are they doing this is crazy people complain about being at home too long over the last six weeks or so in the time in quarantine safer and home then those same people who complained about that we're complaining about being at work two months ago you can't win

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