Hey everyone, welcome to Pastor Rick Warren's Daily Hope. We are so glad you're here with us in this very special season. You know, on the very first Christmas, when Mary was just about ready to give birth to Jesus, she and Joseph were turned away by the innkeeper because there was no room. Today, Pastor Rick begins

his Christmas series, Will I Make Room for Jesus? And he shows us just like the innkeeper,

we can miss out on being a part of God's greatest plans if we don't make room for Jesus in our

everyday lives.

All right, let's join Rick now for part one of a message called,

Will I Make Room for Jesus?

You know, a number of years ago, my wife decided that I would get to choose where we went on vacation.

And the kids were little at the time, and she said, we're going to let Daddy decide what kind of vacation we took. And I said, I'd like to do a vacation that is

totally spontaneous. No planning. I said, you know, I'm a leader, I'm a pastor. Every day of my life

is planned. Every hour, every second.

And to me, planning a vacation doesn't sound like more fun.

I'd like to do one that's just totally spontaneous.

Let's just get in the car and we'll just say we're going to drive over the western states.

You know, we'll go to the Dakotas, and we'll go to Wyoming and Montana and Utah and Colorado and Arizona and New Mexico.

We'll just drive around and we won't do any planning. That sounds fun to me. That's a great vacation for a 17-year-old

single guy, but not when you've got a wife and kids to bring along with you. Because as it turned

out without making any plans, on the first five nights of that vacation,

in five different cities, four of those nights, we could not find any motel with a vacancy.

And we spent four of the first five nights sleeping in the car.

That did not create happy campers for my kids.

And so along about the fifth night, we decided from then on we would plan ahead and order.

I mean, we were in some big towns.

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