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Rob is a best-selling author of several books and a right storyteller as well and as we said last time we are sort of eavesdropping on important conversations that Rob is planning to have with his grandchildren when they become young adults. Yeah. And so the setting is that Rob is on a stage in a setting that looks like his study, his office at home and he seated in an armchair speaking to each grandchild as he imagines them in the chair opposite him, so here's Rob Parsons on today's Focus on the Family Jackson look at you flop fall with 22 years old, Jackson take a seat just talked about dreams psychology say that most people have three basic dreams. The first is your phone off a cliff. If you hit the floor. Apparently you die. Although no one's been able to verify that the second dream is to examine a months time anyone done any work at all for me.

Jackson to be honest that's not so much a dreamless as a memory. But the third kind and this is the one they wanted me to your naked in public in the God and pocket the Queen is coming toward you with a tray of cucumber sandwiches and you are completely naked, but Jackson that's not the kind of dream I want to talk to but I want talk about a different kind of dream you know the Bible says about a vision the people perish. We are born to dream just how much you like to you dreams being fulfilled.

I assume you like to chortle somebody else just to see if a book but you gotta like to know when I was about 1415. I did dream but we was an academic home. We only had three books and homework with less. Where the Bible and something called the doctor's book.

It was so written that whatever disease you looked up you hacked and also the one on the facing page.

It was a scary book to look up to be honest, we want an academic home. I didn't understand was lazy. My school report noted the fact when I was 14. At Easter time. There were 34 children in my class. I had come before. My teacher evoked he is making no use of what little ability.

He has I remember one day, you know, about a year like we went to an architect's office as a career as Pokémon as I leave another teacher said, Parsons what are you going I said so I may be an architect he comes up often when our people do that. Jackson even people who love you will pull cold water on your dreams. I member rushing home to my dad.

I was 21 you, so that was a mailman.

The postman I said that I met this guy says I can be a lawyer pay for me to go through law school Jackson remember what my father said as though he was standing next to me know if his son people like us don't become lawyers. He wasn't trying to be sarcastic. I think he was trying to keep me from the pain of failure, but he was still pouring cold water on my dream Jackson. If you go to see you dreams fulfilled in a couple of things you can at the time put in place. Number one I think you could probably need to find a dream catcher I met mine when I was about 15 1/2. I'm walking down the road. I'm about to drop on the church because I don't understand church.

I'm certainly about to drop out of school. All I want to do is be a walkable. I got a guitar of my shoulder and an older man from church comes up to me. Author Toby and his wife will pull the tools in his mother's house and his wife were told at that time they couldn't have children of their own. Never posit academic examination also had a very bad speech impediment, but also market love case.

I said Rob next Wednesday in our homework and I will Bible study for about 10 to 12 teenagers. Would you like to come call legs engine when all you want to do is walk onto the stage in Las Vegas. Testing gold lame a Bible study on the Wednesday nights. Not the greatest golfer you've ever had, but for some reason I said yes. He was a brilliant psychologist. He taught us the Bible as best he could for 25 minutes and then they got two bits of hot water put on the dining table.

We play ping-pong with a backs up against a chest the ball went under the table was an engineering job to get it out with what little money had bought us fish and chips in us were coming back from the chip shop and the vinegar is seeping through the paper. Margaret, his wife at the tea brewing when you walked into San Marcos home before like a king.

No matter what anybody else said about your specialty. Teachers also told you you were special, that God is giving you gifts if you miss that classy come hunting you down when I was about 17 he said Rob Jeff take part in debates of drama in school.

I said I really put my hand up in class is what I think God is giving you get the public speaking.

I am going to teach. That was scary.

He was the worst public speaker you've ever had in your life, but he did teach me to tell stories to children unrelated to give what I call though he called Mike my testimony to adults in churches folks. I'm not exactly sure how it happened. Honestly, by the time I was early 30s as a joint seen a part of a tell of his legal practice. When I was in my 30s Law Society of England and Wales asked me to be a keynote speak in front of a thousand lawyers in Vienna as I'm go on stage at the site during the healing through prefabricated house in the north of Cardiff.

I said nothing about them on stage. A thousand lawyers out that you taught me to do this.

He said did I the company as I got promoted one of my books in America and the radio host and the student got them live on their phone because it was a surprise to me, and interviewed him, and at the end of the interview he said to Arthur what you think of the ball you came to Bible class.

Arthur said I'm proud of him. I cried on the market did know much, but they must've woken up one morning sit down and we don't seem to have much RAM got the money we collect kids of her own. Right now we impressed any exams.

I got the speech impediment and autonomy are two rooms I think I put that the hard but on top of the table which we can play table tennis with them. I could teach him a little, but the Bible. If we save some money. We combine fish and just want to give a shot. The changed my life.

You will and I will not have to answer for what we didn't have little much but we may have to answer for what we did have you died couple years ago I went into the hospital.

The last time he was practically comatose. I put my lips next to his inset Arthur, thank you.

Change my life. I kissed find a dream catcher. If you can. Jackson will be a dream catcher, Helene Jackson, you got to be prepared to fail you currently prevent the fail. Roosevelt said the credit belongs to the man or woman who points out with a strong man or woman could have got it better but but the man or woman is in the arena's face is marred by sweat and blood and tears even if they fail at least fail them greatly know I love Paul to look at this study, Jackson. It's full of poetry.

I love poetry but about a year ago somebody gave me a little poem. It's the shortest form of ever come across. It will be my favorite poem to the day I die. Would you like to hear me was something okay well then I will.

It has to do with being prepared to try something.

There is freedom waiting for you on the breezes of the sky and you say, but what if I fall on my darling wife you fly 30 checks you go to events.you in the middle of the Old Testament.

Jackson is a quirky book of Ecclesiastes.

It is an incredible line and it those who watch the wind never so those who watch the clouds never in other words, it's really the perfect time to begin anything. You know what is (in the wind will blow to wake up, I saw the hobbits a short wait your something you just think that's even the ground. You've gotta begin except Pullman may be one of the greatest violinist to ever live, but he contracted polio when he was eight years old and he comes into the auditorium and he takes his seat for solo violin conduct is in place the order is in place. The August were in place and then he takes the Caliph of his leg begin to play solo violin, but tonight's program on the computer because the end of the piece is a six minute violin solo very, very difficult for coming up 30 seconds into that violin solo one of Pullman's fostering spikes.

It sounds like a bullet shaken around the auditorium. The audience gasped. The conductor supplement wasting the carry-on and for the next five minutes brilliantly transposing the music from postings to three finishes the piece and the people went crazy. All the seats that In the August of buying in the instruments and then Pullman called for silence and a microphone and when he got it he shouted into the darkness of the auditorium. All my life is been my mission to make music from what remains.

All my life. It is been my mission to make music from what remains in Jackson you are young and I am a but neither of us can do anything about yesterday, but by God's grace in our lives and in the lives of others.

We can make music from what remains a ceiling like Jackson folks before EB comes in. The last grandchild I got to talk to about you know if you have more than one child, you will have chalk and cheese that is thickly galling that the first was compliant because that's what illusion cover the second and my second one. Lloyd was was the test and what he was driving me crazy. Honestly, I don't to wake up every day of his life with the same prayer almost tiny lips you got help me drive my mother crazy today and every day God answered his prayer going out with kids it is only God is still answering his. I said I can see him with a child. The stems of wax African chicks and says no you can take me then and I want you know the leave she sections will she stamp several function wags and will think I she shakes her head and says no. I think any day now swing low Sweet chariot below look at you now 24 years old, compose that I want to talk to postseason friend of mine is professor of psychology at Oxford University set fascinating thing to me not long ago, said Rob. Most people believe a future event will make them happy if I can win the lottery if we could move house.

If I can get exam if we could do this a big promotion. I'd be really happy. He said Rob most happy people grasp it now because now is all we've got. I'm a child of the 60s couple years ago, my wife will be two tickets for the sound of the 60s concert. I was so excited I can hardly sleep we going to your deterministic pack they said that they had so many people here but why is everybody so old. She said well, gentlemen. The bands were older than the audience, the leader swing a bridging set-aside content, but I've hurt my back is back Joey when I left the concert, I walked like I was writing the lip of the column. I called up misspelling realization hit me. The music was great, but those teenagers weren't as quick as I remember. Teachers were sometimes nasty to me girlfriends finish with me lots of them. Police chased me down the road. Life wellness good as I remember saying while the old days better than this. It will rob you of the day. But darling for some it is not the problem that the past was so good it can never be repeated. It is that is so bad. We can never be free of darling, we have to be very careful not to give simple answers to people's grief, but I want to talk to tiny bit about suffered. You know what all if I could stop yourself and you can take my life now in the study, but I count but I want to take you to a man who suffered at least as much as I think you may have to show you how he dealt with it, but for that, my darling, I have to take Auschwitz and Victor find was a joy psychiatrist was in August, which is not how he lost his wife.

He lost his friends he lost everything that he went on to minister to them reaching out to them and when the US Army liberated somebody asked them this question. How could you on doing and how you want reaching out. How could you want helping other people and he said this, they can take everything from they got to got help from you and your freedom from you and your dignity from you. They can even take a life form you but one thing they cannot take is the choice as to how you will respond to any given set of circumstances, darling. For some it is not the process. The problem, it's the future. Look at his old chair used to sit on my lap. Then I would reach you from the Mr. men books to remember those. My favorite was Mr. worry he worried about everything.

What about his heart is called in his car and his roofing and if you have nothing to worry about what I'm really worried because he was sure he must've missed something, cannot darling even know pups is a bit like Mr. worry.

I wake some mornings with a sick feeling in my stomach and I worry about health and I worry about work, I sometimes worry about you kids I sent Lindsay what about your mom and your dad and all most of its a lot of nonsense. My mind just goes well enough on things you know. Mark Twain said most of my tragedies and there happened to me the smartest man who ever lived said don't worry about tomorrow. You have enough to worry about today, but we can live our lives in fear like that darling little yearly mapmakers used to get together with the old explorers and they were safely exposed. Tell us what you found and then the old cartographers would draw the maps and when they got to the age of exploration and explores The Further You Know They Would Write on the Edges of the Maps They Would Write These Words. Beyond This, They May Be Dragons nor Never Seen a Dragon. Often When Explorers Got into the New Lands. They Were Beautiful Full of Wonderful Resources, but Right Now It Was the Future and Therefore beyond This, There May Be Dragons Darling. Sometimes We Write Those Words on the Edges of Our Lives We Live in Fear. Ask for God's Help to Live, Not Just in Yesterday or Tomorrow, but Today Give Us Today Our Daily Bread.

This Is the Day the Lord Is My Yesterday Is History.

Tomorrow Is a Mystery. Today Is a Gift and That's Why We Call It the Person. But Darling If You Going to Do That You Have To Do a Bathroom with a Great Enemy Time Times a Fascinating Thing You Come by You, Lord, You Can't Rent. You Can't Save People Say to Me I Say That I Will Really Ready to Put It the Same Idea about My Never Been but You Can Only Spend Time All the Surveys in the Western World Truck. People Want More Time.

The Only Problem Is, Everybody Is All the Time. Tonight in the Penthouse in Manhattan, a Multibillionaire Will Die Surrounded by Dark Lawyers, Hospital Consultants on Exactly the Same Time a Bag Will Die Alone in the Streets of Calcutta. Those Two Men Only Had One Thing the Same. The Whole of Their Lives at One Second past Midnight, a Big Bag of Minutes Was Delivered to the Foot of Each Man's Bed and 24 Hours Late at One Second to Midnight Each Man's Bag Was Empty.

No Amount of Money, Power, Prestige Could Buy One More Minute Darling. It Truly Is the Greatest Asset Number.

I Want You to Work Hard.

I Want You to Be Successful, but As You Get Older I Want You to Understand the Power of Time and Make Sure My Darling You Invest in Relationships. Brandeis Used To Be the CEO Coca-Cola Enterprises and ISA Said This Is and When Were Young We Juggle Five Balls Work, Family, Health, Friends, and What He Called Spirit Present When Were Young We Juggle Them As Though They All Made of the Same Material but Not Some Are Made of Rubber. If You Drop the Work Ball. It May Bounce Back. Not Always, but He Said Some of Them Are Made of Glass. They Don't Bounce Too Well Would Be Wise to Take More Care of Those It All in the Bible Says Number Your Days That You May Get a Heart of Wisdom. Did You Know That Using Google Could Be Dangerous. Highlighting Google Today to Find the Fixed-Price United States and Other Popular Books Would You like to Know the Usual Going to the How Could You Resist. I Said Yes Send Me a Questionnaire 30 Questions When You for Letting and Finally a Little Box Flashes at Me. Calculate I Hit the Button and Flashes It Missed Working out How I Developed and Finally It Shows Me a Number. Oh Darling Pups Has so Many Years Left and so Few Know Darling I I'm Not Much of a Computer Geek. I Still like Those Old Diaries, like Any Charity Shops on the Government over That They Paper They Use a Pendulum of Those Things That I like Them. They Got Little Squares in the Month of the Date of the Boxes and and Every Day I Am Pulled from One Box into Another August 19 Comes on Pulls Me through the Door into Its Box Comes August 20.

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So I Go on There Is for Me a Box That Has No Doors Then Wanted No Amount of Money for Speech Can Alter That They at All. Darling I Believe the Greatest Philosophical Question in the Universe Is This. Does That Box Have No Doors Because It's Just the Coffin and That Is the End or Does It Have No Doors Because It Has No Walls and Is to Begin Dollars with and Our Time in the Study Know That Gives Me the Chance to Tell My Favorite Story and the Whole World Snowball Expands on One of the Very First Telephones Lived on the Plane City Said I Was Nine Years Old When They Deliver the Big Wooden Box. My Mom Would Wind It up and She Was Information Please and a Voice Say This Is Information and Information, Please Would Tell Them the Weather Will Get the Model Number, or Even Telling the Time, One Day, Said My Mom and Dad Were out Buying My Thumb with a Hammer Is "Because There Was Nobody. And Then I Remembered the Telephone I Got Stolen. I Stood on and I Wanted a Blessed Information, Please Posted This Is an Information. Please Save Your Money. No Is Your Daddy and No Is a Pleading No. Could You Get to the Icebox. Yes, Hold Some Ice against the City Worked after That Iraq Information Please for Anything Information. Please Help by Juggling All Working on Your Philadelphia Information, Please Talk Me to Spell Disappear When My Pet Canary Died.

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We Couldn't Have Children of All I Still Love It When You Run up Now I'm Sorry. Remember That on You, but I'm Not Very Well Only Come in a Couple of Hours Weekly for My Area. Please Ring Me and I Promised I Would and I Used To When We Would Often Talk and One Day I Ran and I Said Information, Please in a Different Voice. It This Is Information I Think I Speak to Sally and the Lady Said No Sir, I'm so Sorry Sally Died a Couple Weeks Ago. She Was Very Emotionally Communicating on the Subject of General Weight Is Your Name Paul Why Yes It Is. Well Paul Sally Silica Happened during We Must Be Sure to Give You This Myth. Paul, You Must Always Remember There Other Worlds to Sing All Darling, I Want You to Be Successful, but I Want You to Walk through Life with Your Eyes a Little Higher at the Lowest Moment Lives. Jesus Said in My Father's House Are Many Moves, It Will so You Want to Lift Their Eyes and Darling so All Your Pain. Don't Let People Even Religious People Give You Easy Answers to Your Pain, but It Will Explain Some and It Will Bring You and It Is Real.

No, Give Pumps a Kiss. The Problem with Writing Books Is How You Finish the Arrival of the Westinghouse Book and I Wasn't Sure How to Finish It and Then I Came across Some Words Which Are Currently Hung on the Wall of Mother Teresa's Office and I Finished the Book with These Words.

As I Finish My Short Time with You Know with the Same People Often Unreasonable, Irrational, Self-Centered, Forgive Them Anyway.

If You Are Kind, People May Accuse You of Selfish, Ulterior Motives behind Anyway. If You Are Successful You Will in Some Unfaithful Friends and Some Genuine Enemies Succeed Anyway.

If You Listen Sincere People May Deceive You. Be Honest and Sincere.

Anyway What You Spend Years Creating Others Could Destroy Overnight Crank Anyway. If You Find Serenity and Happiness, Some May Be Jealous. Be Happy Anyway. The Good You Do Today Will Often Be Forgotten Doing Good and Give the Best You Have and It Will Never Be Enough. Give Your Best Anyway.

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