The Difference Between Honesty & Complaining
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Just like poison is to your body, complaining is toxic for your home environment. But if you'll deal with it, your home can experience a new sense of peace. John and Danny offer some ideas for how to practice thankfulness in your home. Featuring Tricia Goyer.
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| 0:00.0 | If you were dining out and suddenly the weight staff came over and said, you have to stop. |
| 0:12.9 | There's some poison in that food. |
| 0:14.8 | You would stop. |
| 0:16.8 | You wouldn't eat it. |
| 0:18.6 | If I came to you and said, you know what? |
| 0:20.6 | Complaining is poisonous to you. Would you please just stop complaining? Maybe you would. |
| 0:26.7 | The truth is grumbling is toxic to us. It's poison to ourselves and to those around us, |
| 0:32.1 | our home environment. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm John Fuller along with my focus on the family colleague, Dr. Danny |
| 0:38.0 | you have a counseling practice, you do a lot of different things, |
| 0:41.0 | but one of the things you do is counseling and you |
| 0:43.9 | probably see some yeah gardening and you probably see some complaining at the |
| 0:49.4 | root of family issues from time to time I I don't know. I'm just taking a guess. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, and it is very, very contagious. It creates a momentum in the house that is full of tension, stress, a lot of unhappiness is there. |
| 1:04.3 | I remember a family that came in to see me and the dad was a very negative complaining type of individual. |
| 1:13.8 | Anything that you could think of he would complain about, |
| 1:16.6 | even the paperwork that he had to fill out |
| 1:19.4 | and the way it was structured, there's a lot of criticism. He was a very critical individual and you |
| 1:24.6 | could see that translating to a lot of tension in his home. His wife and the two teenage boys really did not like to be with him. |
| 1:38.0 | Yet you could see the negativity coming out in those two boys and the mom was trying to do something about that. |
| 1:44.1 | She was a very optimistic positive lady and I'll never forget when this dad came in and |
| 1:50.8 | said Danny do you want to come with us on a trip to Texas? |
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