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FRONT PORCH FRIDAY’S - Make Memories · THIS IS THE LIFE PODCAST

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to front porch. Friday's here on our
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  Speaker 1: morning moments for Jesus. Devotion time that we have this
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  Speaker 1: morning is we just get ready to relax. I pray
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  Speaker 1: you if you drink coffee and you got time, just
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  Speaker 1: grab yourself a good cup of coffee, getting your favorite place,
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  Speaker 1: and just relax for just a few moments in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the Lord. If you do happen to be
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  Speaker 1: driving this morning, safe travels to you. But this morning,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord just invites us to slow down a little
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  Speaker 1: bed and just enjoy the moments of our lives. We
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  Speaker 1: hear on a Friday, we're getting ready to go into
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. This morning. A letter came to me, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know a few months ago, and it just it
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  Speaker 1: kind of blessed my heart because it kind of referenced
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  Speaker 1: a song that I'd written almost four years ago now,
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  Speaker 1: and I just want to read that letter to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning and then make a few comments on it
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  Speaker 1: and then maybe play the song here at the end.
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  Speaker 1: This one comes to me from a couple. It says,
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  Speaker 1: we just wanted to write and tell you how much
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  Speaker 1: we enjoy listening to This is the Life podcast where
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah and Janet from a little town here in Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the songs you've shared that has really
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  Speaker 1: become a favorite of ours is Make Memories. There's just
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  Speaker 1: something about that song that makes you stop and think
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  Speaker 1: about how quickly life moves for us. It speaks about
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  Speaker 1: the choices we make with the time we've been given,
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  Speaker 1: what we invest our lives in, who we spend our
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  Speaker 1: time with, and whether we're actually making memories or just
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  Speaker 1: staying busy. And the older we get, the more we
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  Speaker 1: realize that some of the things we once were so
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  Speaker 1: important really weren't. It's the moments with the people we
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  Speaker 1: love that seemed to matter most when we look back.
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  Speaker 1: We were wondering if you would share a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about Make Memories. How did the song come about? Was
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  Speaker 1: there a particular moment or experience that inspired you to
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  Speaker 1: write it. We would especially love to hear what was
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  Speaker 1: on your heart when you wrote the lyrics. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for sharing your songs and your thoughts with all of us,
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  Speaker 1: and if you get the chance, we'd sure love to
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  Speaker 1: hear Make Memories again. Blessings from Oklahoma, Jeremiah and Janet.
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  Speaker 1: Will Make Memories really came from really a very simple
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  Speaker 1: moment in life. You would think it would just be.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't born out of some kind of big event.
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  Speaker 1: It was just an ordinary day, one of those ordinary moments,
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  Speaker 1: But it quickly became extraordinary when you stopped long enough
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  Speaker 1: to appreciate it. What happened was it was an autumn
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  Speaker 1: day and I was sitting outside swinging with my grandchildren,
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  Speaker 1: and at some point they both fell asleep in my lap,
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  Speaker 1: and I remember sitting there and looking at them and
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  Speaker 1: watching the sunlight pour through the oak trees that are
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  Speaker 1: around our house, and I began to think about how
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  Speaker 1: quickly life really moves. Children grow up, seasons change, people
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  Speaker 1: get older, and moments that seem so ordinary today can
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  Speaker 1: become some of the most precious memories if we just
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  Speaker 1: slow down long enough to enjoy them. So as I
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  Speaker 1: sat there, another thought came to me. There is no
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  Speaker 1: amount of money they could ever buy this moment. I
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  Speaker 1: think that was when the message behind the song kind
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  Speaker 1: of really began to settle on my heart because in
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  Speaker 1: so many ways, and you can testify that this will
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  Speaker 1: be true maybe in your life. In so many ways,
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  Speaker 1: we spend our lives making two things right, money and memories.
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  Speaker 1: Now we need money, and we have bills to pay,
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  Speaker 1: we have families to provide for, responsibilities to meet. Nothing
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  Speaker 1: wrong with working hard and trying to build a better life,
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  Speaker 1: but somewhere along the way we have to remember that
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  Speaker 1: there will come a day when we can no longer
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  Speaker 1: make money. And when that day comes, how many memories
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  Speaker 1: will we have? That really stuck with me? And that
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  Speaker 1: was the heart of really the essence of behind the lyrics,
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  Speaker 1: make memories. So this song isn't simply about remembering the pasty.
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  Speaker 1: It's about being intentional right where you are this morning
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  Speaker 1: but the present. You have an opportunity right now to
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  Speaker 1: make some memories, just this morning. And we spend so
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  Speaker 1: much of our lives investing our time in things that
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  Speaker 1: demand our attention. Work, responsibilities, schedules, possessions, all the things
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  Speaker 1: that listen now that we convince ourselves have to be done.
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  Speaker 1: Many of those things are necessary, but time is one
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  Speaker 1: thing we are spending every day that we can never
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  Speaker 1: earn back. Once you'll think about that for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Money can be replaced, possessions can be replaced, opportunities they
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  Speaker 1: sometimes will come back around again, but you can never
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  Speaker 1: go back and relive a moment once that moment has passed.
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  Speaker 1: That afternoon on that porch swing, it reminded me that
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  Speaker 1: some of the richest moments of our lives will never
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  Speaker 1: show up in our bank account. Sometimes wealth looks like
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  Speaker 1: two children to sleep at, grandchildren asleep in your lap.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes wealth looks like sunlight filtering through the trees, and
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  Speaker 1: just enough wisdom to recognize what you have while you
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  Speaker 1: still have it. I love the fact that my wife
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  Speaker 1: was able to come out and take a picture of
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  Speaker 1: that moment. And someday, someday those two precious children will
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  Speaker 1: be grown, they will always have that picture and this
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  Speaker 1: song to remind them of a very special memory for
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  Speaker 1: all of us. So maybe the question behind make memories
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  Speaker 1: is one worth asking ourselves every now and then, and
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  Speaker 1: it's simply this, while I'm spending my life making money,
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  Speaker 1: am I also taking time to make memories? Because eventually
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  Speaker 1: the working years will end, the schedule will slow down,
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  Speaker 1: and the things we work so hard to accumulate that'll
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  Speaker 1: belong to somebody else all but the memories, those are
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  Speaker 1: treasures that will live on. So today you be safe,
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  Speaker 1: you be strong, you be blessed, and you go out
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  Speaker 1: today to your very best to make memories.
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  Speaker 2: The porch swing, swear it in the hush of day,
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  Speaker 2: the one breeze danced as time slipped away. Two little
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  Speaker 2: ones in my arms lay still dreaming soft dreams. It
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  Speaker 2: seems so real. Slide pork through the old oak.
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  Speaker 3: Trees like golden threads, so and moments in me, and.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, this is well, this is peace, more than
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  Speaker 2: what any dollar could bring.
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  Speaker 4: We make two things in this life. We live money
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  Speaker 4: and memories and the things it gives. One fades fast,
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  Speaker 4: the other will shout long after we're past the hands
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  Speaker 4: of time. I won't always learn, I won't always climb,
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  Speaker 4: but I'll haul these moments and.
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  Speaker 2: In my mind a while there's time and the heart
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  Speaker 2: still seeks. You can make anything. It all make memory.
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  Speaker 2: I've chased the cloud, God fun the race war tired
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  Speaker 2: lines into my face. But no lectri kt Off could
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  Speaker 2: bring such fame, Like childlike voices that call your name.
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  Speaker 3: It's the crayona and on the.
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  Speaker 2: Weather paint, the giggles that go through the morning pains
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  Speaker 2: gets swinging slow with the grandchild's grim where you pray
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  Speaker 2: the deal but never And we made.
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  Speaker 3: Two things in this life. We live, money and memories
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  Speaker 3: and the things it gets. One gets fent, the other
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  Speaker 3: gets past. Like girlooms in the moments the last.
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  Speaker 2: I won't always work, I won't always wrong, but I'll
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  Speaker 2: live in their haunts long after I'm gone. It's a while,
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  Speaker 2: there's breath and the Soren's free. If you can make anything,
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  Speaker 2: it all, make memory.
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  Speaker 3: Tell about Jesus who teach.
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  Speaker 2: Them to pay watch the stars shining at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, telling stories, need the butterfly sky, and
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  Speaker 2: catch every question any young child's. Because we make two
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  Speaker 2: things in this fleeting pace, money and memories, but only
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  Speaker 2: one states one we one, we give, one we lose,
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  Speaker 2: one will live. I won't always be here, but I
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  Speaker 2: will be nearing the port swing song, the laughter they hear.
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  Speaker 2: So while you can't old, close and belief. If you
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  Speaker 2: make anything at all, make memories. The only in your name,
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  Speaker 2: beat her birth, spend
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