Hey everyone, God bless you guys. Thanks for  being with us this next half hour or so. Such an honor to come into your homes and to spend  time with you. We feel blessed that you watch   the services and just you you’re a part of the  ministry. You’re part of our family. And so we thought we’d take a little time just to ask answer  some questions. You’re welcome to send some in,   but we got a quite a few here. But always blessed  to have my beautiful wife of 38 years now.

38 amazing year. That’s right. How you doing,  Vic? Hey, it’s wonderful. It’s always fun to come and just be able to kind of be in a more relaxed  atmosphere and just be able to answer questions people are asking. And I hope we can answer them  uh well. I hope we can help you out. You know, that’s our heart is to really just be an  encouragement to let you know we all face the same things.

you know, we go through this life and  we just have to continue to just keep our focus and our perspective in the right place because  I think that’s the key to life is really it’s   all about perspective and how we see things. And  I know sometimes Joel in my life I have to remind myself and I have to develop redevelop I should  say that perspective like I have to decide how am I going to look at this situation. Yeah.

And I  have a choice to make and so I think a lot of life is choosing how we see things and how we approach  things. So, I hope this helps people when we come because that’s that’s our heart anyway. We just  want to be an encouragement and actually a friend   to you. That’s that’s so good, Victoria, because  I believe that we we talk about it a lot that, you know, how you perceive life is how the day  is going to go. You know, you focus on what’s   wrong.

And I think all of us have something in our  life that could cause us to be worried or upset or irritated. And I’m not saying we don’t deal  with it, but I do think like Victoria is saying,   you have to choose to focus on the good and hey  God, it’s another day. we get to be alive and you know see that day as a gift and and I always  say you know don’t don’t don’t focus on how big the problem is how about how big our God is and  just find the the good things in your life that grateful heart to me helps you to have a the right  attitude throughout the day and so I hope you do that and we’re in a season there’s a difference  too who you hang around and who you’re spending   your time with and investing your time in because  I know there’s people that it’s hard for them to

see the good you uh maybe they haven’t been raised  to see the good and things like that. And so I think it’s really important um you know what we  what we put oursel into, how we go to church, how we get into community because it can make all the  difference in the world. But I know I just wanted   to say that because I think it’s super important.

I I have a lot of people, you reminds me of stories, but I’ve told y’all before, but I had a  a man told me his whole life he was negative. It’s   just how he was raised. is it’s like you said,  Victoria, sometimes we’re we’re that way and we don’t realize it because it’s just how we grew  up. It’s how our mind has been programmed, but he was just always so negative, but just little by  little, he was listening to Sirius XM actually,   and he just said he just started developing this  different perspective, getting up in the morning and being grateful. And he he told me, he said,  “The people at work said, you’re like a different   person. What happened to you?” Well, it was all  reprogramming your mind to just Man, I I I saw

something a while ago on the on the on Instagram,  but somebody was talking about I believe it. If   you if you talk about your problems all the time  and if you focus on your problems, well, you’re going to have problems because you’re accentuating  it. You’re drawing that in. And again, I I know it’s not, “Hey, Joel, I’m dealing with cancer.  I’m dealing with something.