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Kenn Kington: … say, “Can I have a hotdog?” She goes, “Yeah, would you like anything on that?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I said, “Well, what do you got?” She goes, “Well, you can get mustard or nothing, or both.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “Well, give me both.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “Wanna see you pull that one off.”

Audience: (laughs)

John Fuller: Well, that’s a pretty, um, interesting conversation to listen to, and we have more observational humor today for you from Kenn Kington on today’s episode of Focus on the Family. Your host is Focus president and author, Jim Daly, and I’m John Fuller.

Jim Daly: Well, John, uh, life can be heavy, especially lately. And the Bible tells us that a joyful heart is good medicine, so we wanna share that prescription on today’s broadcast. Our guest is one of my favorite clean comedians, Kenn Kington. And Kenn has been featured on Comedy Central and countless media outlets, and the last message we heard from him made our Top 10 list for 2020.

John: Yeah, he always makes me laugh out loud-

Jim: (laughs)

John: … and, uh, with that, let’s go ahead and listen into Kenn Kington on today’s episode of Focus on the Family.

Kenn: I’m also glad to be here. Have you ever had one of those trips where things didn’t go right? Four hours late and I get in the rental car and I’m flying down the road because I’m already late, and I- I- I’m getting dressed on the interstate while I’m driving, which is not a good combination. And then I realized I’d forgotten. I’d forgotten, so I called my wife, I’m like, “Honey, I forgot, I forgot, I forgot.” She goes, “What’d you forget this time?” I said, “I forgot socks.” She goes, “Well, calm down, Sparky. They sell these in stores.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I’m like, “Yeah, but you don’t understand, I don’t have time. I’m late already and I don’t know- and I don’t know where the shoe stores are. I just need to find socks.” She goes, “Well, calm down. Okay, okay, okay. I- I think drug stores carry socks and I’m sure there’s one on the way. Try a drugstore.” Good news; drug stores carry dress socks. Bad news; drug stores only carry women’s dress socks.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Good news; they’re really comfortable.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And I’m sitting there, “Do I get them, do I not get them? Do I get them? Uh, you know, time. Do I get them?” Then I saw, “One size fits all.” And I know some women with some pretty honking feet, okay?

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: So I grabbed them, and actually wore them, and here they are, okay? I want you to see these-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … all right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Whoo. But I love the fact that my wife always has the answer. She is the smartest woman I have ever met, literally the smartest. Not only just beautiful, but smart. She’s- she was in… she would tell me how she was in advanced classes, tell her how I was in special classes.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: She used to get paid for her grades. Anybody here ever get paid for your grades? Pay- do- did you really? That’s incredible? How many of you, like me, two days before report cards, practiced forging your parents’ signature?

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Okay, yes. These are my people. My wife actually said this about a year after we were married. She goes, “I don’t know if I’ve ever told you this or not, but Kindergarten through college, I only made one B.” I was like, (laughs) “Me too.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Because it’s not easy, it’s not easy. Now, that- that I will say this one thing, because everybody has a glitch, and as beautiful as my wife is, as smart as my wife is, as intimidating as is, she has a glitch. And her glitch is something we call -isms, Heather-isms because she says phrases that really don’t make sense-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … except to her. We were talking with some friends the other day, she’s saying what a great friend she is. She says, “I am a great friend. I am loyal as a heart attack.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I don’t think I want you to be my friend.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And she gets it… honestly, we were playing a game with her parents the other night. Her dad, after a move, says, “Hey, whatever turns your boat.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Would that be a rudder?

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Now, the great part is they usually pop up when we’re having an argument, and they’re just over. They’re just over at that point. I’ll give an example, we were talking about our checkbook one day and going back and forth, she goes, “Well, you can’t milk a dead horse.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: How do you argue with that?

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: She caught me in something one time, she goes, “You are treading in hot water.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I said, “Honey, I can be treading on thin ice or I can be in hot water, but if I’m treading in hot water, that’s a jacuzzi.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “I don’t really mind being there.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Now, I love this. She plays Bunco with some of our neighbors in- in the neighborhood. Do you guys know what Bunco is?

Audience: Yes.

Kenn: It’s a game, and it, uh, it’s a Greek word that means- stands for, “Gossip while holding dice.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Okay, that’s- that’s what it means. And she came back one day and she goes, “Oh.” I said, “How did it go? Who was there?” And she’s telling me about it, and she goes, “You know, I just needed that time with those other ladies. It’s such a wonderful bondage experience.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “I don’t think you can go back.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: One of my favorites, though, is out in California on tour, I called her, I said, “Hey honey.” I said, “I can’t wait to get home.” She goes, “When are you coming home?” I said, “I land tomorrow afternoon.” She goes, “Oh, oh?” I said, “Yeah, I got the first flight out in the morning.” She goes, “Oh, man. You couldn’t catch the Jedi flight?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “Yeah, I don’t think Han Solo is doing that one anymore.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “Kinda hard to find a good Wookie these days.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And I mean, this comes out of the fundamental level of her being. We discovered this about three weeks ago, coming back from Spring Break. She’s in the backseat trying to get our two-year-old daughter to go to sleep in her car seat, and she sings, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. Up above the-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … world so high, like a diamond in the sky.” Then she looks at me, she goes, “What’s the next line?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I said, “Q, R, S, T, U.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And she’s not alone, I love that people have started writing these in and sending them to me. A buddy of mine calls me this past week. He’s like, “My boss, in our meeting, he says, ‘You know what? We got a busy quarter up ahead us, but let’s not get the chicken in front of the horse.’”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Okay. I did a state fair in Missouri, they said, “Go get something to eat at the hospitality tent.” And this poor girls must’ve been in the sun too long. I said, “Hi. What do you got?” She goes, “Well, hamburgers and hotdogs.” I said, “Can I have a hotdog?” She goes, “Yeah, would you like anything on that? I said, “Well, what do you got?” She goes, “Well, you can get mustard or nothing, or both.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “Well, give me both.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “I wanna see you pull that one off.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: (laughs) And they’re all around and they’re happening around me, too, because my… I went in to wake up my son the other day for school, my oldest son, he’s said he loved school. I said, “Graham, are you ready for school?” He goes, “Dad, I’m happy as a muffin.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “You’ve been hanging out with mom, haven’t you?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I love being a husband, I love being a dad, I really do. But there’s certain parts of being a dad that don’t make sense; I have no money.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I make money, I just don’t have money.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: My daughter and me are different. I have a duct tape wallet. I’m not making this up, this is my wallet, it is made of duct tape, from a camp two years old, um, two years ago, from my boys. My daughter who has never had a job and has no money, has five purses.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: That only makes sense if you’re a dad. I go to the ATM, I go to deposit a check. I let my son, I said, “Punch in the secret code, punch in the amount, punch in deposit.” And he does that. “Now, put the envelope in,” and he puts it in and he goes… I said, “What?” He said, “Where’s the money?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I said, “It’s a deposit, we just put the deposit in.” He goes, “Mom always gets money.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “Yes. That is the way it works.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: My wife got a part-time job, she’s done very well. We have our money and her money.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Her money and our money. I still have no money.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: It’s amazing to me the way that works. And over time, I got to thinking, “You know what? There’s gotta be something to this. There’s gotta be something to this, and it’s about being a dad.” See, being a dad, things happen, and I wanna know from some of you who have been a dad for a while, when these things happen, because I started noticing some of them in me, and I’m- I’m scared before I’ve seen some of you.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: My dad used to give me a hard time about having long hair, I had a big afro when I was kid, long hair, and I felt bad about it until I saw him go swimming. My dad had very short hair, except for this thing on top, and when it got wet…

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Have you seen these, these comb-over things? It’s like… they grow it, like, eight feet long and go…

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Sh- sh- sh- sh-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I was at the bank the other day. In line behind a guy, he had a part right here. I wanted so badly for him to around so I could go, “Fff.” See what would happen.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I’m gonna give away a secret that you, uh, I’m gonna kicked out of the man club for this. If your- if your husband is a dad and you ever want him to stop doing something that’s irritating, what it’s- whether it’s something he says, he wears or he does, here’s how you end it. All you gotta do is next time he says it, does it or wears it, you just go, “That is so neat.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And he’ll say, “What?” And then you repeat whatever it is he said, did or wore, and then you add the words, “That is just like your dad.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: He will never say it, he will never wear it, he will never do it again.

Audience: (laughs)

John: You are listening to Focus on the Family and a great presentation from Kenn Kington today. And, uh, we have a CD of this presentation with extra content, and that’s available when you make a donation of any amount to the ministry today. Just call 800, the letter A and the word FAMILY or you can donate online and request it at focusonthefamily.com/broadcast. Let’s return now to more from Kenn Kington.

Kenn: You can tell how old a tree is by how many rings it has.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: You can tell how old a man is by how high his waistline is.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: This is junior high.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And then you get up to around high school, then college, and then at some point in time, that just crawls up there.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: My dad meets me at the door like this now.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: He’ll go, “Hey, got a little spare tire around there, son? Spare tire, not me-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … I wear the same waist size I wore in high school.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I’m like, “Yeah, dad. But I never have the problem of getting underarm deodorant on my waistband.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “That never happens to me.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Never happens. And what gets me is that I… I mean, I look at some of these guys and they got their shorts up and their hair is swooped, wearing dark socks with flip-flops.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And at some time, they looked in the mirror and went, “Ah, this looks good.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: When does that happen?

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Ga. But it’s amazing to me that, you know, in- in time, not only do I see that as a dad, but, uh, but life can get difficult. It can just be hard sometimes. I was flying from Corpus Christi, Texas to Phoenix, Arizona. Now, get the- get the geography on this; Texas to Arizona. I get to the airport at 5:45 in the morning, I go, “Yeah, I’m flying to Phoenix.” And they go, “Oh, I’m sorry, your flight’s been canceled, there was a winter storm in Atlanta.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: He says, “But good news, we’ve re-booked you, we’ll have you there tonight at 9:30.” And I said, “Is there another flight?” And he’s like, “Oh, no. That’s the best we can do.” I’m like, “That’s the best you can do?” I said, “It’s 5:50 in the morning.” And, “I’m sorry, that’s the best we can do.” “That’s the best you can do?” I said, “You’re telling me from right now, 5:50 in the morning, til tonight at 9:30, there’s only one airplane leaving from this region of the country flying to Phoenix, Arizona?” And he says, “Of course not.” I said, “Okay, let’s start there-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … and work backwards.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: When he types, “Well, you probably don’t wanna do this, but I can fly you from Corpus, Houston, Houston, Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Phoenix, and you can be there by 4:30.” I’m like, “Do that.” And he says, “Okay, dude.” I just said, “Do I need to take my bag?” “No, we’ll take care of it.” It was going great until I got to Salt Lake City. I thought I had two hours, but I didn’t because I heard my name over the loudspeaker. “Kenn Kington, please report to Gate E18 immediately. Kenn Kington, E18.” I’m like… I took off running. I get to Gate E18 and I’m like, “I’m- I’m Kenn. Is the flight still here? Is it, uh…” like, “Oh, yeah. It’s not for another hour and a half.” I’m like, “Well, you called my name.” They’re like, “Oh, are you Kenn?” I’m like, “Yeah.” And they’re like, “You need to talk to those guys.” Two ramp workers with the knee pads and the headphones and… I said, “Hi, I’m Kenn Kington, is there something I can help you with?” They’re like, “Oh, do you wanna tell him or do you want me to tell him?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I said, “Tell me what?” They said, “Um, I don’t know how to tell you this, but, uh, your- your bag, uh, f- it didn’t make it.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And I fly 200 flights a year, that happens a couple times a year, and I said, “Well, did it not make it from Corpus to Houston, or Houston to here?” And they both looked, they went, “Um, uh, no. It got here-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … but it didn’t make it.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: (laughs) I said, “Um, I’m so sorry, I’m- I’m not following you. I’m so sorry, I’m a little slow and I was in special class, you know, so I don’t- this…”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And he says, “Well, uh, see, there was a roller accident, your- your bag is gone. We think we saved most of what was inside of it, but your bag is gone.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I said, “Can I see it?” And they both went, “No.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I said, “I can’t see it?” And they said, “The biggest piece is about this big.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And sure enough, when I finally got my stuff, it had exploded on the tarmac. There were airplane wheel marks across my clothes.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I said, “Well, ugh, okay.” I said, “Well, is there a reason why you’re calling me?” They say, “Yeah, we’re putting it in a temporary container. We just wanna let you know you can make a claim when you get to Phoenix.” I’m like, “Okay.” And they said, “Well, you’re taking this pretty well.” I’m like, “Well, the, you know, is there anything I can do? Like, no, but, you know, your, uh, is the flight on time?” “Yeah.”

So I get to Phoenix and I’m sitting there at the baggage claim. Now, it’s not like Atlanta where it comes out of the bottom or not the sides at most airports. In Phoenix, there’s two that come out of the ceiling and they come down. And I’m standing there with about 80 people when it dawns on me, as the luggage begins to come down, I have no idea what I’m looking for.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I figure out, “Just wait.” And then it became painfully obvious what I was looking for.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I want you to picture the largest garbage bag you have ever seen-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … and the reason I know it was mine is because it was clear.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Here comes my shoes and my underwear and… so now, I’m gonna let it all- I’m gonna let everybody leave before I leave, and- and that didn’t work. People were taking their luggage and then watching this thing go around, you know.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Looked some hobo Santa Claus walking through the airport.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: But you know what? I- I- it… life happens like that, and I need help, and people need help and we need each other, and I- and we need help and I wish there were signs for help, but there’s not. There’s sign for everything else, but not for things that matter. I was on- in Orlando, Florida. If you’re ever down there, look in I-4. In the median on I-4 in Orlando, Florida, they have a sign. They have paid hundreds of dollars to put this sign up, “Do not mow.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Apparently, there’s some renegade landscapers-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … in Florida driving around, going, “Hey, Bubba, did you see any cops?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “Break out the John Deere, we’re cutting some grass! Woo!”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: What? And they’re dumbing down signs. They used to have a sign, “Deer crossing,” do you remember that one? And they changed it again on the Christmas theme, “Deer X-ing.” Apparently, that was too hard, so now it’s a just a picture of a deer.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I shared that in Ohio, this guy came up, he goes, “I can’t believe you said that.” He said, “My wife hit a- hit a deer less than 100 yards from one of those signs last week.” And I was like, “Dude, I’m so sorry.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: He’s like, “No, no, no. That’s not why I’m telling you,” he says, “They called me, I went out, she was okay, and I couldn’t help it. I said, ‘Honey, did you not see the sign?’”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Her response, “I never thought they come from the other way.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “You’re gonna need to give me the keys.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And the signs they could do pictures for, they don’t; boom, bump-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … or a dip. What the?

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Oh, no. They spell those out. I just wonder what the poor foreign drivers in our country are doing when that comes up, you know. “Hey, Fonz. Fonz, this sign, come up here, what this sign mean here?” Boom, boom.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “I think the sign mean bump.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Now, I talked to a friend of mine at D.O.T. I said, “How much are those signs?” He says, “They’re, like, $300 to $500 to make them. Then it costs a crew anywhere from $300 to $500 to put them in.” Here’s my idea; why not just take the $1,300 and fix the bump?

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Maybe it’s just me. Whoa.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Oh, th- this is one my favorites. When we went to Maui for our 10-year anniversary, we’re on the road to Lahaina, beautiful mountains and the cliffs and the water, and we’re pulling up to the- where the mountain goes into the ocean, and there’s a tunnel. 10 feet in front of the tunnel, 10 feet in front of the tunnel, there is a sign with one word and all it says is-

Audience: Tunnel.

Kenn: … “Tunnel.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Who is struggling with this?

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: Who is driving like, “Ah, there’s a hole?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “There’s a hole in the mountain!”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “There’s a hole! Ah! Oh! It’s a tunnel!”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “I didn’t see the sign!”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “Tunnel.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “Who knew?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: It’s not right. And then I get to thinking in my life, you know, there’s times where I think, “You know what? I- I don’t get it.” Being a dad, I don’t get it, and it’s becoming more confusing. You used to be able to just dress, jeans and khakis, you’re fine. And I used to be able to do events where I just say, “Hey, it’s- it’s either dressy or casual.” Now it’s, like, confused. Say, “Business casual.” What does that mean anymore? Used to mean no tie, then no tie, no coat, then no tie, no coat, maybe khakis, then no tie, no coat, maybe khakis, maybe jeans, maybe T-shirt. Now it’s T-shirt, short, flip-flops. It’s gonna be a Speedo pretty soon is-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … what it’s gonna be.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “Honey, where’s my loincloth?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “It’s casual day.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I mean, it’s confusing, but I love my life. I love it and I had an epiphany, a moment where I just, uh, and it all came together. This past summer, we were coming back from vacation, 10 minutes, packed up and we’re going in 10 minutes, come to a red light. As I’m at the red light, I look out the window, there’s a brand new pickup truck right next to me. I’m like, “Ah.” And then I look in the back, there’s a beautiful Golden Retriever with a head out the window, I’m like, “Whoa, cool dog in the back.” Brand new Harley Davidson Chrome package. The guy looked over, I’m just like, “Hi there. Hi there. Har, har, har”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: ‘Cause that’s what we do, you know, “Har, har, har.” And he looked over at me and he kinda, “Ha,” back and kinda laughed, and I was like, “What is he laughing at?” And then it dawned on me, I’m in a minivan.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: It is impossible to look cool in a minivan.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And I’m not buying really cool toys for thousands of dollars, I’m spending hundreds of dollars on things you don’t call your friends about. I don’t go, “Hey, Rob, come over. I’ve got a new water heater.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: No, wash our hands, that’ll be great.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: You don’t do that. And I’m just sorta trying to distract myself, I kinda fiddle with the mirror and I saw- I saw something I have never seen before in my life. On the top of my ear, there was a hair-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … growing straight out.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: It’s, like, this long. And that’s not the bad part, I looked at my wife, I said, “Heather, look at this.” Her response, “Oh, yeah. I saw that the other day.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: What? You thought I wanted that there?

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: What, braid it with the others, make a little ponytail or something?

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: That was interrupted by my two in the boys in the back fighting over who gets to pick the movie and who gets the electronics and-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … that was interrupted by them going, “Daddy, Kennedy smells bad.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And sure enough, the smell waves forward and I’m thinking, “10 minutes. We’ve been on the road 10 minutes, why not 10 minutes ago? Why not 10 minutes from now?” And if you are a dad, you knew what I was doing on calculating, “How far can I go focused without having to stop before this smell burns my eyes shut?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: He goes, “H- h.” That is interrupted by my dog discovering the other dog and begin to barking at that dog. Like, call him a dog, I wanted a dog.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: My wife said, “Let’s get a dog,” and I’m like, “Yeah.” I’m thinking German Shepherd, Goldendoodle. We have a 12-year-old four-and-a-half pound Yorkshire Terrier.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: It’s like having a barking hamster.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: The only thing dog-sized on my dog is his tongue, he has a… if you took a German Shepherd tongue, grafted it to a gerbil, that’s what I’ve got.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: He falls asleep, the drool spot is bigger than he is.

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: And the light turned green and we begin to go. And as we drove off, it was as if this voice came to my head, “Kenn, if you could switch right now, if you could choose, if you could choose right now, you could choose the new truck and the new dog and the cool motorcycle, or you can keep the minivan and the wife that leaves hair hanging and the kids in the back and the smell and the barking hamster.”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: “Which do you want?”

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: I gotta tell you, 10 times out of 10, I would choose the minivan, because I had found more joy and more purpose and more fulfillment and more comedy material in the-

Audience: (laughs)

Kenn: … minivan. And that is why the greatest joy in my life and what I do is because I am a dad. God bless you and thank you for coming tonight.

Audience: Woo.

Kenn: Thank you.

John: Well, there’s a profound thought from today’s guest on Focus on the Family, Mr. Kenn Kington.

Jim: John, I love that image there with Kenn’s wife, the kids and the dog and the minivan, (laughs) because that’s the essence of family.

John: Mm-hmm.

Jim: Uh, yes, it’s messy and chaotic, but in the midst of that, uh, parents are shaping the next generation. The future sharers of the Gospel and the future voters of our nation. It’s a critically important job because without families, nations crumble. And we’ve seen that time and time again throughout world history. And here at Focus on the Family, we are working hard to help families strive. Uh, we want to help you in your marriage and give you the tools you need to have a great partnership together. And we want to help you in your role as a parent as well. And we have great resources for every age and stage of your child’s life, and most importantly, we want to make sure that you know the Creator of the family, and that’s our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. There’s our mission in a nutshell, uh, so if you believe in those values, let me encourage you to join us a monthly sustainer, a partner with this ministry. We’re a non-profit organization and we are extremely careful in how we manage the resources that are entrusted to us by you. And we consider your donations to be a widow’s might, and we act accordingly. And when you make a monthly pledge of any amount, we’d like to send you a CD of Kenn Kington’s entire presentation with extra content. Uh, get a copy to share with a friend who could use a few laughs. And if you can’t make a monthly commitment right now, we understand, uh, we can send you the CD for a one time gift of any amount as well. Uh, just get in touch with us and become a part of the ministry to families in your community and around the world.

John: And you can reach us when you call 800, the letter A and the word FAMILY, or donate and request your CD at focusonthefamily.com/broadcast. Have a great weekend and join us again on Monday as you’ll hear how to find balance between perfectionism and reality in your parenting, and how to pursue joy in the journey.

Courtney DeFeo: And so I think for most parents, that reality is a harsh thing to face, and so we can either get bogged down by that or get a new game plan to say, “How do we keep going in the midst of chaos and either get depressed or just have a new game plan to go with it and enjoy it, or give up.”

John: On behalf of Jim Daly and the entire team, thanks for joining us today for Focus on the Family. I’m John Fuller inviting you back as we once again help you and your family thrive in Christ.