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Pastor Chuck Swindoll | Insight for Living – Hurry, Worry, Tears, and... · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: I read somewhere that he's so nervous about life, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want to miss one panel of a revolving door.
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  Speaker 1: But miss it. Relax. You'll never be learning what you
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  Speaker 1: could learn if you're not willing to listen. And that
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  Speaker 1: takes some discipline, because we're in a day where waiting
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  Speaker 1: for anything is I read somewhere that he's so nervous
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  Speaker 1: about life, he doesn't want to miss one panel of
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  Speaker 1: a revolving door. Miss it, relax. Let The wonder in
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  Speaker 1: life includes teaching moments where there are no words. The
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  Speaker 1: Socrates said on one occasion, there are times that words
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  Speaker 1: are stupid. Things. You've seen it, you've been around it.
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  Speaker 1: People who have too many answers for your struggles. Something
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  Speaker 1: wonderful about a person that just comes and sits alongside
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  Speaker 1: you and simply says, I care so much about what
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  Speaker 1: you're going through. They don't offer advice, they don't tell
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  Speaker 1: you what the next steps will be. They don't quote
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  Speaker 1: three verses. They don't try to impress you with what
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  Speaker 1: they've been through by saying I understand. Anyone who's never
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  Speaker 1: lost a child should never say to someone who just did,
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  Speaker 1: I understand. No, you don't you never lost a child,
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  Speaker 1: if you've never gone through, you know, a still birth,
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  Speaker 1: don't act like you know all about the grief of
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  Speaker 1: that because you don't. So say that. I can't imagine
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  Speaker 1: the grief of giving birth to this precious soul you
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  Speaker 1: were looking forward to spending a lifetime with, and he
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  Speaker 1: or she was still born. Take time. Take time. Mentoring
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  Speaker 1: is not a sprint. It's a marathon. It's life with life.
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  Speaker 1: It's when you sit down with your son or daughter
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  Speaker 1: and you know some things need to be talked through.
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  Speaker 1: You talk them through, and you give them time to
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  Speaker 1: tear up. If they tear up. I often tell people
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  Speaker 1: that cry in my presence. They'll often apologize. I said, please, please.
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  Speaker 1: Tears are some of the most eloquent statements of our lives.
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  Speaker 1: God gave us tear ducts not just to moisten our eyes,
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  Speaker 1: but to let our emotions out. I respect tears. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell my wife when you tear up, you need to
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  Speaker 1: know something. I'm all ears because it gets to me.
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  Speaker 1: I just can't take the tears. But I know you
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  Speaker 1: hurt that deeply. Well. Men cry too, But as you
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  Speaker 1: get older, you tough enough. Why I know there's a
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  Speaker 1: reason for discipline. My life's driven by discipline, but there
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  Speaker 1: are some times that I lose it. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: give a devotional here at Insightful Living for our board meeting.
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  Speaker 1: I always begin the board meeting with a devotional. I'm
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  Speaker 1: speaking on Worthy as the lamb and Antipano voice. They're
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  Speaker 1: singing to him, you are the one who is worthy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to get through that without too
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  Speaker 1: many tears. But I can't get through it. All touches me.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you try to get through it without tears. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to blubber, you know, and just stand
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  Speaker 1: there and do nothing but weep. But I want them
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  Speaker 1: to hear enough to know how touching it is. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he alone is worthy to be prayed east. He alone
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  Speaker 1: is worthy of our everything. So it's not about us
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  Speaker 1: in this narcissistic age where everything is about me, give
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  Speaker 1: me a break. None of it is about me. It's
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  Speaker 1: about the lamb. Worthy is the lamb.