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Friday's Challenge on Posted by Rebekah

Every Friday @ 12:30pm (CST), you can hear a weekly challenge from me on Faith Music Radio.  My podcast is called Posted by Rebekah. You can listen online HERE or download the free app for your smartphone.  I would love for you to join us, listen and take the challenge!
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Here is today's podcast in blog post form. :)


Our family is going on a short road trip to Fairfield, CA tomorrow.  Just a couple of days – my husband will be preaching for a pastor friend there.

Our children’s pastor asked me this week – what kind of snacks would the girls like for your trip?  He said, “I know Addie likes Flaming Hot Cheetos.”  I started to chuckle when I read that comment.  You see, our last road trip camping, we were on our way to the beautiful Redwoods.  We had barely crossed over into California and a couple of the girls started to get car sick.  The joys of kids!  Ha!  Well, when Addie got sick and started vomiting, she was exclaiming, “Oh, it’s hot!” in between her hurls.  Meaning, the hot Cheetos coming back up was not very pleasant.  And obviously, they still hold their quality of being hot!

It was all my husband and I could do to keep from bursting out laughing in the front seat!  Oh yeah, there are definitely many moments like that as parents and you know it too!  Here your kid is throwing up and you can’t keep your laughter in.

But you know what?  That bad experience hasn’t deterred my daughter’s love for hot Cheetos.  She still loves them and would eat them every day if she could.

So what is the lesson in this weird story?  Sometimes, you are just gonna have a bad experience.  Give it another chance.  I thought of choosing a church in this scenario.  There are no perfect churches because churches are ran by imperfect people.  People sometimes decide to leave over experiences.  Yes, they may be valid.  But most of the time, if we just take some time to chew on it – we are able to think a little clearer and realize – It wasn’t really a big deal.  Things are just gonna happen and that’s ok.

So the challenge is – this Sunday, if something happens that hurts your feelings…discourage you…anger you – take some time before you react.  Give it another chance!

Will you take the challenge?
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