Appreciating Every Area of Our Life

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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.560 Welcome to the Jill Lostein podcast. Help us continue to 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.520 share the message of hope with those all over the world. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.520 Visit Joelostein dot com slash give Hope to give a 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:47.560 gift today. 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.960 I just want to talk to us today about appreciating 0:01:54.680 --> 0:02:00.160 every area of our life. You know, when we appreciate something, 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:05.520 awareness to it, we bring value to it, and we 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:10.120 are less likely to take it for granted. In Deuteronomy 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.040 ten through twelve, God was taking the children of Israel 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.920 to city they had not built. He said, I'm giving 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.080 you homes filled with great treasure. He said, I'm giving 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.160 you vineyards you didn't plow, but I'm giving them to 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.720 you so that you can work them. I'm giving you 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.440 homes with great treasure in them, so that you can 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.920 live in them. And he went on and on to 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.440 tell all the wonderful gifts that he was giving them. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.760 But then he warned them. He said, I have to 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.280 warn you. I'm giving you all of these things, but 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.680 don't take them for granted. He said, don't take them 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.600 for granted, and don't forget who gave them to you. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:53.280 Don't take them for granted and not honor me. See, 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:57.480 the same thing is happening today. God has given us things, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.680 a great country to live in, He's given us homes, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:05.480 He's given us family, friends, jobs, and he is saying, 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.680 don't forget who gave it to you, and honor me 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.919 in it. You see. I believe when we appreciate God, 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.720 when we appreciate the things that God has given us, 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:21.520 we're honoring him. You see. Appreciation is a language, and 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:26.240 it honors God. How many of us have seen videos 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:31.839 are visited impoverished countries and realize how blessed we really are. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:40.840 We have running waters, we have great grocery stores, restaurants, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:46.760 whatever we need. It's basically at our fingertips. And we 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:51.440 see these these impoverished countries and people, and our heart 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.200 goes out to them, and we feel so compassionate and 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.920 we feel so blessed. Right then we get to our jobs, 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:04.000 we get to our homes. We face life challenges, decisions, 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:09.240 things go wrong, and we forget about those things. We 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:17.359 forget how grateful we should be. We get comfortable, uninterested, 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:22.080 We take things for granted. It's easy to do, and 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.919 we all do it. But can I tell you that 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.680 we've got to learn the language of appreciation. Have you 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.679 ever heard yourself say I have to go to work. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.600 Oh I have to go pick up my kids. I 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.359 have to make dinner. Oh I have to clean up 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:43.080 after my husband. See the language of appreciation says this. 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.760 It says, I get to go to work because I 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:52.400 have a job. I'm so blessed to have my children. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:56.240 I'm gonna go pick them up. Now I have a house, 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:01.200 I get to clean it. See that's the wage I 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:08.320 have appreciation. I was talking to a man the other day, 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.640 and he was telling me. He actually showed me a 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.000 list of jobs that he had had ever since he 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.279 was a teenager. And he began at thirteen years old. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.320 He was a paper boy. He went on to fifteen 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:26.000 and he started mowing lawns. Seventeen he was shoveling snow. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.280 Then he went on to be a plumber. Then he 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.400 went on to be a pipe fitter. Then he went 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.800 on to be a contractor, then he went on to 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.720 and he was going on and on. I thought, dear Lord, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.400 how many jobs has this man had. But the purpose 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.760 of showing me this list was this, he said, I 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.360 went back through my life and I looked at every 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:48.640 job that I've ever had, and he said. I thought 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.200 about it, and he said, what did that job show me? 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:57.480 What did that job give me? And he assigned a 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:07.240 word to each one of those jobs, words like commitment, perseverance, integrity, responsibility. 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.320 He said, Victoria, you know some of those jobs at 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.320 the time, I couldn't see how they even made sense. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.760 He said, they were difficult, They were hard, he says, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.520 But when I made this list, he said, what it 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.120 did is it showed me how grateful I could be 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.000 for each and every one of these jobs and how 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:31.200 it developed my character and my resolve for the next job. 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.800 You know what he was doing, he was adding value 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:41.000 to his life. He was mining the gold. See, sometimes 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.600 we get stuck in those places and we make excuses 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.159 why we didn't get to the next place, said, we 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.160 had to do this, our parents didn't bring us upright. Well, 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.720 if I'd had an opportunity to go to college, Well 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.320 if I didn't have to work this job. You see, 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:00.320 this man told me. I read this list often, he said, 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:04.640 because it helps me be very aware and conscious of 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.160 where I am right now and the blessings in my life. See, 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.240 this man is a top executive now at a million 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.600 dollar company. He said, I read it often. I never 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.760 want to take this for granted. You see, we should 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:22.600 all dig the gold out of our life. Yeah, we're 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:30.200 gonna face challenges. We're gonna face challenges. Things aren't always 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.800 going to be easy. But when we begin to look 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.240 for the lessons, when we begin to look for what 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.520 can build in us, you know, that's when we're gonna 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.040 find the value. That's when we're going to find the purpose. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.960 You see, when you're appreciative and you look for the 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.960 value in something. What you're doing is you're adding to 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.480 your life. Sometimes we run around thinking there's a missing 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.760 link if I can only find that thing. And when 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:00.240 you have an attitude like that, you are lacking. And 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:04.200 when you're lacking, it's hard to find purpose. That's why, 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:08.440 wherever you are today, no matter how difficult it is, 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.520 ask God to show you where's the value in this? God? 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:16.440 How can I appreciate this because it's something you've given me? 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:20.240 You see. The happy people are the people that can 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.000 be appreciative of what they have right now on the 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:30.160 way to where they're going. Have you ever heard that 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.440 song you don't Know what you got Till It's gone. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.880 I think it's a country western song. It sounds like it. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:36.719 You know. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:41.880 It's unfortunate that some people have to lose something before 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.480 they recognize the value in it. You see, we shouldn't 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:49.120 have to lose something to begin to appreciate it. I 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:50.679 was talking to a man the other day and he 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.600 was telling me how he had struggled with this long 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.480 battle of cancer and his recovery had been very difficult. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:58.640 He said, but let me tell you, Victoria, I see 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.400 the world in a completely different way how I viewed 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.400 my life before cancer is totally different than how I 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.440 view my life now. He said. The important things to 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.720 me are my friends and my family. He said this, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.840 and I thought it was so good. He said. You know, 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.800 when you've had cancer, he said, you realize that a 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:22.680 bucket list is overrated. He said, experiencing and appreciating what 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:28.280 you have every day is what's important. You see, we 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:32.280 don't want to have to almost lose something to appreciate 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:36.360 what we have. We cannot get so comfortable and so 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.439 accustomed to the blessings in our life. Someone gave me 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.280 a sculpture and I liked it. It was really pretty. 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.720 I put it up in my home, and that sculpture 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:49.840 was right where I want to put my Christmas tree. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.000 So I took the sculpture down and I short it 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.640 in a back closet in my home. I put all 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.480 my Christmas decorations up. Okay, don't judge me, but I 0:09:57.480 --> 0:10:00.440 put my Christmas decorations up a week before thing Thanksgiving. 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.360 But I take them down right after Christmas. I was 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.160 digging in a closet just not long ago, and I 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.600 noticed a sheet in the back of that closet, and 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.320 I thought, what is that? And I pulled off the 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:18.800 sheet and it was that statue. Now, that statue had 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.040 been in there about two years, and I thought, oh 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.640 my gosh, I forgot all about this statue. You know, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.800 sometimes you get so much stuff, maybe some pretty things, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.800 you forget about what you have. So I kind of 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.560 just forgot all about the statue. So I tossed the 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:35.800 sheet back over it because I was in a hurry, 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.160 and I left. Well, a few days later, I was 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:41.120 with some friends of mine and we were on a 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:45.400 project and we were staging a table, and so we 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.800 had the table looking really good, and somebody said, you know, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.199 we need something special on this table. We need something 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.560 to set this table off. And so we were looking 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:56.000 for all these things. What can we just top this 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.319 table off with? And in my mind I thought about 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.920 that statue in my closet with a sheet on it. 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.000 I was like, oh, that might just look good. So 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.679 I had someone bring it where I was, and so 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.520 we put the statue on it, and all the girls 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:15.000 were like, whoa, that is beautiful. That is the most 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:20.240 perfect thing ever. That is so gorgeous. And I stood 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.280 back and I thought, that is pretty, isn't it. It's 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:28.520 amazing how I valued the beauty in that statue because 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:29.560 everyone else did. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:30.880 So. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.719 On my way home, I was thinking to myself, I 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.360 got to find something like that because I want my 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:41.240 statue back. So I got home and I got on 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.240 the internet and I started looking looking what can I 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.240 get that's like that? What can I get that's like that? 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.880 And to my surprise, I realized that that statue was 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.240 a limited edition. The artist only made a few and 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.760 you couldn't get it anymore. And then I found a 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:02.600 gallery that was looking for that specific statue. They wanted 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.920 to buy it. I was like, oh my gosh, this 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:10.600 is something so valuable. I want my statue back. I 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.280 want my statue back. That's all I could think about 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.960 was getting my statue back. You see, sometimes we don't 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.760 appreciate things until someone else sees the value in all. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.840 You see what you're taking for granted today someone else 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:39.160 may be praying for Some things can't be replaced. They're 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:45.520 one of a kind, your mother, your father, children, spouse. 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:51.400 Don't neglect it. Don't get so used to it that 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:56.320 you forget the precious gift that it really is. 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