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- Join with Me Ministries Podcast Episode 13: We are honored that you have chosen to listen to this podcast. Join with me, where the information will be biblical, filled with joy, and very helpful. Stay tuned to the end where you will learn how to communicate with Rayburn and Donna about today's episode. Hi, I'm Rayburn Hare. And this is Join With Me Podcast. Hey, listen, I'm gonna try to have a little fun and get you to think about something that I hope is practical and and and I promise you absolutely everyone faces. You ever face frustrations? and I mean really, now I think if you get the gist of what I'm saying, I'm gonna have a little fun. I'm gonna just gonna tell you now and also by the way, you might get an idea of why I'm doing a podcast on frustrations. Yeah, I'll let you figure that out. Anyway, I've got some things that frustrate me. One is cell phones. Donna will make the comment sometimes. She'll say, Technology! I hate it, but I have to have it. But cell phones is part of that technology. We've had cell phones for a lot of years, like you have. We've had iPhone for probably 12 years or more, and I have my frustrations with every cell phone. but sometimes they don't work. Sometimes and and look most of the time it's me that's not working it or using it to what it can do or can't figure it out. And I love, you know, our people at Verizon and I go in and they help us and fix it and tell us what to do. computers, my goodness I grew up in an era where we didn't have computers. So I learned how to use a computer, which I i i d that term learned, still learning and and by far I'm never I'm not a techie person, but I struggle with computers, I struggle with this and I always say I I can learn how to do things. It's just that if it doesn't work I don't know what to do from there and and I tend to be a puncher. Keep punching, keep keep punching and it'll figure out you'll figure it out. But look, it's a number of years ago Donna and I discovered that Best Buy has what they call a total tech program. You can pay an annual amount and and which we do and we can take any computer, iPad, cell phone, anything we have, we can take and we do. because we can't do this, can't do that, can't figure out how this. And usually it's not broke. It's not, a matter of fixing it. It's just showing us how to do something. And something we can't do and we need to do and they're easy to get in, get to quickly. If you have a best buy close by, they're they're they're handy. But we get frustrated, don't we, with computers? Well, let me add a couple funny ones. Chords. I I deal with cords all the time. Now you think about that. Yes, it's charging cords. you either can't find them, or if you've changed phones over the years, you've got different sizes, you've got your C charging, your older charging, and you have devices that have one of the it's cords. So you're either looking for a cord, you can't find a cord. or you have the cord and it won't work. or extension cords. Now I'm telling you, I've got extension cords because we have a you know our retreat in in Cole Count, Missouri, and we have cords and I never pick up a cord that it's not tangled. So if I've got to run just a 25 or a 50 or a hundred, I have all sizes of cords to get dis different distances. It'll take me most of the time, five to ten minutes, to take my cord and unha untangle it and get it untangled. And I try so hard to wrap it so it won't be. And I don't know why. But anyway, chords are a major frustration for me. Keys. Now, you ever heard the statement, hey, you can tell the importance of someone by the number of keys they have? No, don't don't believe that. Not for a moment. Because when when you have like we do, like most do, multiple vehicles, you tip you know, we have a place at Cold Camp and a place here in Missouri in Blue Springs. And so we have keys, keys, and then at at our place at the retreat, we have two places. So I try so hard to keep keys. Now look by the I've done this for years. I used to keep a spare key when when the kids were growing up, they started driving and and house keys and I kept a spare key for everything I had. And so when the kids would come and say, Daddy, I can't find my key. Can I get the spare key? And so I was so careful. Okay, now look, this is the spare key. If you lose this key, then I don't have a key. So you can use it, but very briefly only till you find your key. And well, you know how that goes. You know where the story of that moral of that story is. So I I've fought keys forever. But over at the retreat, I've either don't have my key or my keys over at somewhere place else. So I'm always looking for a key and then not find and I have my key. Anyway, keys. Ongoing issue with me. Traffic? Look. You you have have I'm no different than anybody else. I've I travel back and forth, the retreat's about a hundred miles. it takes us an hour and forty five minutes from Blue Springs. There's two ways you can go, I seventy, interstate seventy for about half the trip. Or you can go over to fifty highway, which is not interstate, but which is what we do more than than seventy. Seventy's a little quicker, but listen, I've traveled seventy for a lot of years and it's crazy. And you know it's crazy. You crazy drivers, fast drivers. but in town, you're are you i is is there wherever you are, is there construction? Does it ever, ever end? it never ends. And in Blue Springs, Missouri, there's construction everywhere. So you try to go this way and you this that way and then you one lane's closed and wow. you're dealing with traffic, not to mention your normal people that are on their phones sitting at a stoplight. Hey, I've I've done it. You have too I try to be subconscious, but anyway, hey look woo traffic is part of life. 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I always tell Donna, I say, look, we always take a load and bring a load. I I I hadn't figured that out yet, but anyway, we do. We two places, anytime you have two places, you're always here and there and and so i it is frustrating. Now, I know this is dangerous and and tricky to bring up, but what about spousal frustrations? look, I I'm I'm just try my my wife and I, as you know, been married forty seven years. You think we get frustrated? You think I'm I'm probably the most frustrating person in the world to live with. I'm I'm being funny, but I know we all have our idio i idiosyncrasies where we like this, we like that, and and and I try so hard. I have I do, and I try to be Not okay, this is my way or how we're gonna do it. And I no, I try. You when you're married, you've got to work through anyway, those things. But hey, look, what about a couple things? Do y'all fight? I say fight. Or do you get frustrated over a thermostat? The older I've gotten, the colder I get. I think the older Donna has gotten, the warmer she gets. All right, so you can see where that goes. Fighting over a thermostat. look, I've had offices that I've managed where you have an open thermostat and one day it's burning up, another day it's freezing, you got everybody unhappy, and so I've thermostats, my Goodness, they can be a struggle, can't they? Do y'all struggle with coffee? Donna likes her coffee strong. I like mine I she says weak. I I like it medium, not weak, but medium. my mama used to love it strong, and I mean strong. Donna's not quite that, but she likes it stronger, so I I try to compromise with that. And I've learned to drink my coffee a little stronger, but Anyway, maybe that's why all these little coffee places. My goodness, there's Dutch Brothers and Seventh Heaven and there's all kinds of them here, Starbucks and one on every corner here. maybe that's why they're so popular, because people get frustrated making coffee at home and they can't get it right, so they just go where they pay six, seven dollars a cup, have it like they want it. Now look, this is gonna be funny to you, and I don't mean this to be in any way critical critical, but because we have our place at the the the the retreat, we have fire pits and fireplaces, we have lots of wood, and and and my wife is beautiful and and prim and proper as she is, she'll shock you because she has many times helped me. we cut wood, we split wood. and we stack wood and we have nice place to put it and but but listen here's here I'm saying this frustrating but you'll get you I think you'll get the gist. It'll also tell you a little bit about my wife. When she does it when I'm splitting it and I put it in a wheelbarrow and then she gets it and she stacks it. She don't just stack it she places it. And I'm cutting I I mean I'm splitting and throwing and And she's saying, Raven, I need a piece this size or this so it'll fit right here. And I'm saying, sure, please just stack the wood. Just stack it. It don't matter what it looks like. she says, It does to me. I want it to fit. I want it to be neat. Anyway, that's my wife. I'm just throwing it up there and stacking it, stacking it, stacking it, and keep stacking it. She wants to fit all these little pieces and anyway, that's my wife. And I love her for that. okay, now look I I've had a little fun. How do you handle frustrations? How do you handle them? Because they don't quit and they're not going to, they're part of life. Well, is there a biblical application to this? There's a verse in John chapter 16. Jesus himself says this. He says, These things I've spoken to you. That in me you may have peace, in the world you have tribulation. In the world you have. Now I'm I I know frustrations is but it is kind of trying, you might say. And it often does try your patience. James chapter one says this. That that difficult times or painful circumstances are allowed by God. Why? To test, to purify, to strengthen believers. Really? Just patience. Endurance in James chapter one, testing of faith produces endurance. So when you get frustrated, when I get frustrated, How do I respond? Irritable? Throwing stuff? Acting. Hey, just accept that it's part of life and it's part of God's way of being patient. Being patient. Why do you think I'm doing this podcast? Because I need to understand this and to be patient. So I hope. When you get frustrated, you will, whether it's cords, computers, traffic, your spouse, whatever. Be patient. Read James chapter one. God is doing a work in your life. Let him. Have some fun with it. Okay, I hope this helps you as you get frustrated in the future. This is Rayburn Hair, and this is Join With Me podcast. We trust you enjoyed today's sharing from the heart. If you want to learn more, please feel free to contact us at Rayburnhair at gmail.com. Or you can go to our website, joinwithme.life. Thank you for listening. Be sure to share with a friend and have a blessed day on purpose.