I got off the treadmill of
life. At the pace I was going,
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I couldn't hear God
speaking to my heart.
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Now I have a simpler life.
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God is real to me, my
wife has become my queen,
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my family's united.
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I found the power
and I've made it mine,
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strength for daily
living coming from the vine,
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Jesus is my friend, I
talk with Him each day,
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speaking to my heart,
He guides me in the way.
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Trusting in His
presence ever by my side;
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following in faith I
let my Saviour guide.
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Jesus is the
power ever in my soul,
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He's the love that
makes the family whole.
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Families thus united
set the church aflame,
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lighting up the world
with power, and Jesus' name.
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Sally and I met in
high school chemistry class,
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her last name was
Hughes, mine was Hohnberger.
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- I sat right behind him.
- I took notice of her when
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she walked by me coming
into class, and soon we started
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dating in high school and
we carried on a courtship into
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college, we loved just being
together, didn't matter what
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it was, we could be at her house
doing the dishes, shoveling
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the snow, we could be out
playing tennis, just so long
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- as we're together. -
Together, never to part again.
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She went to a different college
than I did, and we'd write
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letters. If you'd
seen my college note
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books, you'd see Sally scribbled
all over them, with hearts
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all over. We
were in love, I mean
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really in love, I know other
people have been in love too,
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but I think our love was
a very special kind of love.
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We were really
meant for each other.
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We'd talk about the day
that we'd finally be married,
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we'd never be parted again.
That day came, March 25th, 1972.
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I hadn't graduated from college
yet, I still had 2 months left,
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and when I did graduate
from college we bought a brand
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new home, we didn't have
enough money to furnish it
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or anything, we had this
big brand new home in Appleton,
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Wisconsin, and it was filled
with love and we didn't even
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have a refrigerator, or a
stove; we cooked everything
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on a Weber grill and
ate out of a Coleman cooler,
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but we didn't
care, we were in love.
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We had each other.
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That's all we really wanted,
but then my business called
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me to 30 days of
training in Tarrytown, New York.
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I'd never been away from
my girlfriend here, who became
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my wife, for that
long in 5 or 6 years.
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We at least saw
each other on weekends.
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Yes, that was in college,
then I came back and my wife,
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in the mean time, she's
an RN, she got a position at
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the hospital
working 11-7, evenings.
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I came home to an empty house,
I don't mean a house without
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furniture, my
queen wasn't there.
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I wasn't happy, but I thought
"that's life", so I threw
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myself into my business
and started making good money,
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and I threw myself into my
sports and started enjoying
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that, I started spending
time with my buddies, and pretty
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soon something
started happening, I call it
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"the eroding process", it seems
to happen in most marriages
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today. Before you
knew it, we bought
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a second home, well, actually
build the home, not ourselves,
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but had it built, brand
new home, and filled it with
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the nicest furniture, finest
draperies, I got a new car,
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we got a second used car
for her, and we were on our way
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- to the American...what? -
Dream, or myth, whichever way
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- you look at it. -
We thought it was a dream
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then, but we found out
down the road that it's a myth.
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That wasn't enough for us,
we obtained success, I worked
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hard, I was taught by my
parents to work very hard.
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Soon we purchased a 3000
square foot, all cedar log home
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in the country,
and 40 park like acres,
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had upgrades in our vehicles,
we were making good money,
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and seeing each
other less and less.
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We became very active in our
church, very active in outreach,
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very active in difference
committees, difference boards,
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we saw each other
less and less, didn't we?
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And the stress began to
mount, and mount as we gave
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ourselves to everybody,
and everything, but who?
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Each other. I
don't know if you've ever
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seen a coil spring, but if you
coil a spring up, a coil spring,
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until it gets as tight as it
can be, all you've got to do is
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just touch it, and it
just explodes, and that was me.
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Well, that day came, we
were in our early 30's, I went
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to my office and treated
all my office personnel, and all
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my clients with the utmost
of Christian courtesy, but I
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pushed myself too
hard, as I normally did.
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When I came home that night
I just wanted to have a meal,
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and be quiet. I
walked in the back door
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and my lovely wife had
the table all set, our 2 boys,
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Matthew and Andrew, they
were probably 3 and aged 1 at
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the time, they were already
sitting at the table, waiting
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for father to come home.
She had a lovely meal prepared
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for me, already set. I
walked in the back door
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and said "Hi", sat down, I
was the head elder in my church,
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I had prayer, and then my
wife brought one of my favorite
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meals over: hash brown
potatoes, the only problem is
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they weren't brown,
they were sloppy white.
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You remember, don't you?
This is our biggest fight,
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by the way, this is the biggest
fight we ever had in our life,
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she put those sloppy potatoes
in front of me, I was that
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coil spring just waiting
for something to set me off,
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and that set me off, I blew, and
I blew, and when it was all over
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I threw my wife out of
the house, locked the door,
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I had 2 crying boys, I put them
up in their bedrooms, told them
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to be quiet, and I started
pacing the house for an hour
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and a half. God
was trying to speak
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to my conscience saying
"Jim, what are you doing?"
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"Where are you
going?" My wife had returned
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to the back door
probably 2-4 times...
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...just to try the
door and if it was locked,
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I didn't venture forth,
but one time it was unlocked.
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After an hour and a half.
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I can still remember
her face when she walked in,
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and I looked at her and I
said "Honey, what are we doing?"
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"Where are we going?
What's happening to us?"
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And the Lord spoke to my mind
right then and I walked over
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to the telephone and I
picked it up, I called my office
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manager and I said, "I'm not
coming in for 10 days, we're"
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"taking some time out", and
I said "Honey, pack our travel"
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"trailer", we had a travel
trailer; we were living in
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Wisconsin and we headed up to
the upper peninsula of Michigan
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to a favorite little
lake of ours, Imp Lake,
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- do you remember it? - Aha.
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It's a cute little lake with
a little island on it, eagles
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that fly over, some loons, and
we brought the travel trailer
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up there, we parked it there,
and we went down by the little
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water side, and we sat there
and we said: "What's going on?"
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I mean, we were the two that
were in love, and now we were
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- no longer in love, were
we? - Yeah, how could this ever
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- happen to us? -
I mean, yeah, we said
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"I love you", but we weren't
in love anymore, do you know
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what I'm saying, do you
understand the difference?
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You're probably in it yourself,
and we sat there, and we
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redefined success. We'd
bought into the American
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myth that success was a bigger
home, greater furniture, more
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vehicles, I was poised to buy
my next car, you know what it
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- was don't you? - A Corvette.
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- A Corvette. - Investment.
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My investment, I had
justified it, didn't I?
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- Going to be
what color, too? - Red.
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Red, and we were going to
get our cottage up in the north.
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We sat there and we said
"None of this had made us"
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"happy", we thought it
would, we had everything but...
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- ...we lost each other. -
We lost each other by going
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- after everything else. -
I wanted to go back to that
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home where we only had
the Weber grill and a Coleman
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- cooler. - We
were happier then.
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- Yeah. - We were
happier in college
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when I handed her scissors
one day and said "I don't have,"
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"the dollar to buy
a haircut, cut it."
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So we really sat there,
we analyzed, we looked at
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the world, and we looked at
men that were in my profession
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to the time that they retired
and then had 2-3 divorces.
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They had the money, they
had the material items, but they
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- were empty people.
- And family problems,
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lots of family problems.
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We weren't doing this with
a critical eye, don't get us
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wrong, we were just trying
to see where we were going
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- to end up. - We
were looking at our future.
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We'd become Bible believing,
fundamental Christians in
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that time, so we talked about
the people we saw in the church
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and we didn't see much
difference between them
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and the world, to
be honest with you.
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Oh, they're on the right
side of the equation of truth,
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but their lives, their
marriages, their children.
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We didn't see people in
the church that were in love,
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so we said "What
are we going to do?"
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We redefined our priorities
for our life, we decided then
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that we would sell
everything we had...
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...Everything we could sell...
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...Sell the business, sell
the beautiful, 3000 square foot,
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all log home on 40 park-like
acres, sell our vehicles,
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and we'd take our funds
and we'd move up to where we're
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presently at, in the wilderness
in Montana, not to hide,
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not to run from
anything, but to find something,
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because the world couldn't
give it to us, and our church
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wasn't able to give it to
us, so we came here 20 years ago
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to find something; we
define it as "the big 3",
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and that's simple, we
wanted to find a real walk with
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Jesus Christ, not a knowledge
of God, we wanted to be able
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to talk with Him, we wanted
to sense His presence with us
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during the day, we
wanted to hear Him whispering to
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the voice of our conscience,
we wanted to follow Him,
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I wanted to have an experience
in my marriage where I didn't
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have to get irritated with
my wife anymore, or frustrated.
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I wanted that kind of gospel,
I wanted a practical gospel,
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so we wanted to find a
walk with God, a real walk.
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Then I wanted to make my
wife the priority of my life,
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not my business, not my sports,
not my buddies, this is my best
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friend, I wanted to
make her a priority.
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Then we wanted to raise our
2 boys, God gave us 2 lovely
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young boys, and when we moved
here they were age 4 and 6,
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and we wanted to raise them
into what we call "real men".
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Men that new their God,
lived by principle, and can walk
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in the world and
make a difference.
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So we moved 20 years ago
with that in mind, since then
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we've written many books
about what we've found here,
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in the setting that we're
in, in the wilderness here.
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50 miles from the
nearest power up a gravel road.
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The grizzly bears actually
walk in our front yard, we have
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a pet bear, we have dear
that we can pet, and we found
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a walk with God, our marriage
is revitalized, we're in love
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again, I don't love my wife
anymore, I'm in love with her,
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big difference, and we've
been married 32 years now, going
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on 33, we're 55 years old.
We were able to raise 2 boys
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that are making a
difference in the world.
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So we started being asked to
go out and share our testimonies
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with people, and 10 years
ago that turned into a full-time
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ministry, it's called
Empowered Living Ministries.
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We've written books,
I've written 4 books, my wife
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has written 1, and we're
both writing another one, we'll
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continue to write them because
we want others to be able
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to learn in a short
period of time what has take us
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a long period of time, if we can
save you time in that process
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by sharing out testimony with
you, not that you would follow
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us, but by introducing you
how we found God so that you may
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find God, that you may
revitalize your marriage,
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that you may reconnect your
family, then that's what we've
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given our life to. In
that process many people
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have written us letters and
called us on the phone, saying:
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"Can we come and visit you,
we want to come and see your"
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"resting place", we
call this our resting place.
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We can't bring everybody
here, we get so many calls,
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so we want to take you
through our resting place,
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we want to show you the setting
in which we live, we want
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to take you through our home
so that you can catch a vision
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for what God is saying to
you. So would you like to come
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into our home and we want
to show you around and share
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some things with you, come on
into our home with us would you?
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Come on in, see for yourself.
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As you can see, the center
of our home is the dining room
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area, at this table many
things happen in our home life
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because it has to be
multifaceted, and a few steps
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away from my dining room
is my work center, my office,
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for the ministry. And
the office is this silly
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little phone that you hear us
talk to you on the phone about,
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with the crackling and the
calling back, and the static,
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this is the best we have,
and at least we have that.
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And then in this corner is this
computer, an essential element
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in running an office for
efficiency, all of our sermons,
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and books come
off that computer.
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And a couple steps away from
my office is my living room.
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It may appear small, but it is
mighty, there's many things that
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it can do. In the
corner is our stove
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that heats the house, and in
this space we have our family
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counsels, and we have
camaraderie and fellowship
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with like believers, and we
talk about Jesus, and we can fit
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20 people in this room and
be very cozy and comfortable.
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This may seem like a
small space for all the activity
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that was just mentioned a
few steps away for each other,
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but you know, small isn't that
important, it functions, and it
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saves us the time and energy
to put more time with God,
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more time with our
spouses, and work through
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the difficulties, and find
good problem solving techniques
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When we do that as
husbands and wives with our Lord
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and Saviour to change ourselves
inside, and our thoughts,
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and feelings, it shows with
the children, and the children
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are bonded closer to you
because you're bonded to God,
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so the size
doesn't really matter.
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Then, a couple steps away
is the stairway going upstairs,
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that goes up to our 2 bedrooms
that we made upstairs for us.
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This is a bookshelf that
Jim made, a very integral part
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to our home, I'm
very thankful for it.
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In here is our kitchen, and
the kitchen, a very important
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part of the home for the woman,
this is where we spend a lot
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of our time, don't we
ladies? And often the kitchen is
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a laundry room area where
my washer and drier is, and off
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in this room is my
pantry, closest to the door and
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to the left, and to the right
is my bathroom right behind
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the kitchen area. So
this is the kitchen area,
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and the stove, a wood cooked
stove, not your usual stove
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that you see in your
typical, modern day homes today,
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but a cook stove that's run
with wood, a multifaceted tool
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in my home, and became a real
special friend to me, nothing
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like homemade bread coming
out of this wood cook stove.
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One of the joys for our
family has been meal time.
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Not just because of the lovely
food that my wife prepares
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for us, but because that's
the time we have fellowship
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at the beginning of the
day and the end of the day.
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We would sit and talk about the
joys, and the trials, and our
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plans for the next day,
what we went through the day
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and our hearts would bond
together as we would share
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just the simple little
things that happened through
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the day, and the boys learned
how to communicate with us,
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we learned how to communicate
with them, and for all the years
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that they lived here, meal
time was a very special time
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for our family, and not just
the mealtime, but this is where
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I learned to become
priest of the family.
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I didn't know how to be the
priest of the family, and when
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I came out here, it was
very difficult for me to make
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that transition, in leading
my family not just in the truth,
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but leading them to God and
teaching them that God is real
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to you, you can hear God
through the day, He'll guide
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you, and you can walk
with Him throughout the day.
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So in our worship times, we
simply started by taking out
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a hymnal and we would lead
the children in a hymn to begin
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with to lift our hearts
in joy before God, and lo,
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God could come into
the presence of our home.
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Then we would kneel and
have prayer, wouldn't we?
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- Yeah. - We'd pull
out either the Bible
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or a book on the life of
Christ, and we would read it
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together, we would read
a paragraph, and if I was
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reading that paragraph, I would
share what that paragraph meant
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to me, and then my
children, or my wife could share
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after I shared, and then
the next person would share,
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and in the process we came
to practicalize what we read.
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Oh, absolutely, and it
was an excellent tool for,
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as the mother, trying to
teach the academics in the home,
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to teach summarization,
and I found that then when boys
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would summarize what they read,
that that word, those principles
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and concepts that we wanted them
to take into their own life,
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became a part of their own life,
I'd predominantly because Jim
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became so good under God, to
teach the practical application
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of the words that we
were reading, and concepts,
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and principles that were laid
out for us by God, and he was
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so good at that, and made it
much more joyful for the boys
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to see "what does this
text mean to me, and how can I"
00:19:54.58\00:19:58.35
"apply it today?"
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Then as the day would go
on, we live 50 miles from town,
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and to even consider sending
our children to school was just
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out of the question,
specially in the wilderness,
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we home schooled our children
for 12 years, and this table,
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this room here, this
dining room became the activity
00:20:16.06\00:20:19.24
center for home schooling.
This is where my wife would
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conduct 12 grades
of school for her boys.
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It was quite a challenge for
me ladies, I didn't feel adapt
00:20:27.14\00:20:30.95
at it, and I found that probably
one of my greatest tools
00:20:30.98\00:20:34.77
was my lack of
security, or feeling inadequate,
00:20:34.80\00:20:39.94
and unable to deal with the
children, God showed me that
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when you're weak, truly
you are strong, and He gave me
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the wisdom and ideas how
to reach out for the character
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development of my boys through
the trials that would come
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in school, and when they
can't grasp a concept in their
00:20:54.39\00:20:58.09
mathematics I'd take them
to Jesus, and they learned
00:20:58.12\00:21:01.72
to solve their mathematical
problems with Jesus,
00:21:01.75\00:21:05.34
because often it was a heart
problem, and God could help
00:21:05.37\00:21:08.54
them with their wrong
thoughts and feelings.
00:21:08.57\00:21:10.59
So this table became a very
important character building
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tool in God's hands
through home schooling.
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I've you've noticed the window
just behind my wife, we began
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to call that "Channel 1".
You'll notice the bird feeders
00:21:21.80\00:21:24.68
there too, we'd have humming
birds come in, and all types
00:21:24.71\00:21:27.56
of song birds, and just
beautifully colored birds,
00:21:27.59\00:21:30.99
as well as the squirrels.
In the winter when the snow
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would get higher, we'd
place crack corn up the window,
00:21:34.38\00:21:37.63
and the deer would come
up, and along with our meals
00:21:37.67\00:21:40.89
we'd have 4-5 deer heads
with their noses right against
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- the window. - How thrilling.
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Oh, it was more than thrilling,
we didn't bring a TV set
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with us, and nature became
their entertainment center
00:21:51.60\00:21:55.39
for them, so that, to us,
was Channel 1, and all of us
00:21:55.42\00:21:58.95
thrilled at it, we had pets,
that we could feed the birds
00:21:58.98\00:22:02.21
by our hands, the squirrels
out of our hands, it became
00:22:02.24\00:22:05.44
a very special event
for our whole family.
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Then because of what happened
at this table, because of our
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hearts bonding together
and finding a walk with God,
00:22:11.79\00:22:14.96
and their father leading them
in a real Christian experience,
00:22:14.99\00:22:18.91
people began to ask us to share
our lifestyle and what we found
00:22:18.95\00:22:22.82
up here, with others, and that's
the reason for the ministry
00:22:22.86\00:22:26.70
office that's right in
our dining room with us.
00:22:26.73\00:22:29.91
It's not that we designed it
that way, but it was an outflow
00:22:29.94\00:22:33.65
of what's happened at
this table, from our worships,
00:22:33.68\00:22:37.42
our home schooling, our
bonding together over the meals.
00:22:37.46\00:22:41.16
As our hearts grew one together
there was a natural outreach
00:22:41.20\00:22:44.87
to say to the world "we
want to share with you what has"
00:22:44.90\00:22:48.48
"happened in our hearts
and life", and we pray that if
00:22:48.51\00:22:52.20
you've heard anything from
us, you'll know that what we're
00:22:52.24\00:22:55.98
saying is we must come together
as families, we must make
00:22:56.01\00:22:59.76
each other priorities, make God
THE priority, and allow those
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priorities to go into our
spousal relationships, and with
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our children as well, we pray
that God will touch your heart
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with out little story.
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Well now ladies, you might be
more interested in the kitchen
00:23:18.45\00:23:21.20
than just our little tour
that we had before, so I'm going
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to cover a couple
of special things.
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First of all, we have a
propane refrigerator, we do
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have the luxuries that you have
in the city setting, even in
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the wilderness,
because of propane.
00:23:32.81\00:23:35.50
This is my freezer section,
it doesn't look like much
00:23:35.53\00:23:38.24
to you perhaps, with the
large freezers most people are
00:23:38.27\00:23:40.98
accustomed to, but this
is very large compared to
00:23:41.01\00:23:44.15
the [?] I had when we
first moved here, which was
00:23:44.18\00:23:47.29
about big enough for 2 ice
cube trays, and maybe a couple
00:23:47.32\00:23:51.09
inches left for something
else, so I was very thankful
00:23:51.12\00:23:54.86
for this upgrade
in refrigeration.
00:23:54.89\00:23:57.42
And a propane refrigerator
offers smaller space within its
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confines in side then what
the dimensions outwardly look,
00:24:01.66\00:24:05.58
but the joy for a woman to
have a place to put her food,
00:24:05.61\00:24:09.49
and for it to be kept
refrigerated properly is a great
00:24:09.52\00:24:13.37
joy, I was very
thankful to you to upgrade our
00:24:13.40\00:24:15.94
- refrigerator, dear. -
Well, we're just happy to have
00:24:15.97\00:24:18.98
that facility because a lot
of people in the wilderness,
00:24:19.01\00:24:22.02
what they would do
with their food is just put
00:24:22.05\00:24:24.72
their food in the [?],
so this to us is a luxury
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- regardless of its
size. - Yes, for sure.
00:24:27.43\00:24:29.83
And then cupboards, ladies,
you look at these cupboards,
00:24:29.86\00:24:32.99
there's not many cupboards
to be had here, and I just want
00:24:33.02\00:24:36.18
you to know that I moved
from a 3000 square foot home
00:24:36.21\00:24:39.85
to a 1000 square foot
home, that spells discipline
00:24:39.89\00:24:43.50
and simplification. I
had to simplify, I used
00:24:43.53\00:24:46.81
to have 4 sets of dishes in
my former home, with a country
00:24:46.84\00:24:50.14
kitchen, and through
God's grace working on my heart
00:24:50.17\00:24:53.85
and attitudes, I came down
to 1 set of dishes with some
00:24:53.89\00:24:57.55
other bowls and accessory
dishes for serving, and I fit
00:24:57.58\00:25:01.21
all in this little-biddy
cupboard space, I really
00:25:01.24\00:25:03.81
didn't need all that other stuff
that I had, but I thought I did,
00:25:03.84\00:25:07.55
until God worked with my
attitudes with time with Him,
00:25:07.58\00:25:11.07
which is what we were gaining
up here in the mountains.
00:25:11.10\00:25:14.56
And one thing that I really
loved up here in the mountains
00:25:14.60\00:25:18.03
was our water, you've
just got to try our water.
00:25:18.06\00:25:21.33
It comes directly from a
spring up in the mountains,
00:25:21.36\00:25:24.59
1600 feet, and piped down
to our house through a gravity
00:25:24.62\00:25:27.82
feed system. I'd
like to give you a glass
00:25:27.85\00:25:30.32
of water, and let you try
it. It comes out of the creek
00:25:30.35\00:25:33.97
at a nice, cold temperature,
especially during these hot
00:25:34.00\00:25:37.62
summer days, I'll let it
get nice and cool for you.
00:25:37.65\00:25:42.40
I just want you to taste
this sparkling clear water.
00:25:42.43\00:25:47.15
Ladies, the cook stove, my
favorite item in the kitchen.
00:25:53.35\00:25:58.46
When we moved here from a
city girl, to learn to cook on
00:25:58.51\00:26:01.82
a wood cook stove was
quite an art, and I enjoyed
00:26:01.85\00:26:05.43
every step of it, just
because of its uniqueness.
00:26:05.47\00:26:09.02
The first item I'd like
to point out is the warming
00:26:09.05\00:26:11.46
ovens, I wish they'd re-enact
these into the world today
00:26:11.49\00:26:14.74
because I think they're very
helpful, these warming ovens
00:26:14.77\00:26:17.80
keep your food nice and
warm, and if you want something
00:26:17.83\00:26:20.74
to warm up while the
stove is cooking in the winter,
00:26:20.77\00:26:23.56
give it a half an hour,
and you don't have to watch it
00:26:23.59\00:26:26.25
on the stove, and it's
all nice and warm, sufficient
00:26:26.29\00:26:28.90
to serve at the meal
times. You have a very large
00:26:28.94\00:26:31.52
cooking area on the top of
the cook stove, and you can
00:26:31.55\00:26:35.00
just put a pot anywhere, a lot
more than your 4 burner stove
00:26:35.03\00:26:38.80
typical today. And
the oven, the oven is
00:26:38.83\00:26:42.25
a very large oven compared
to the conventional ovens
00:26:42.28\00:26:45.70
of today. I could
cook easily 8 loaves
00:26:45.73\00:26:48.87
of bread at a time in there,
it's very deep and very wide.
00:26:48.90\00:26:52.26
The ladies of old, when they
would get a manual with this
00:26:52.29\00:26:55.48
1890 wood cook stove by
Majestic, they would teach
00:26:55.51\00:26:59.88
the ladies to put their
elbows in the oven to know when
00:26:59.91\00:27:03.00
the temperature was
correct to bake their bread.
00:27:03.03\00:27:05.69
Well, I tried that and did quite
well for a number of years,
00:27:05.72\00:27:09.32
but when we were able,
financially, I bought a
00:27:09.35\00:27:13.19
thermometer to put in my stove
so that I knew what temperature
00:27:13.22\00:27:16.79
it was, and made it even
easier than just the elbow test,
00:27:16.82\00:27:20.31
and the bread that you make
in a wood cook stove oven is
00:27:20.35\00:27:23.79
unsurpassed by any other
bread, would you say so dear?
00:27:23.82\00:27:27.21
- Oh yeah, I like it too
much. - Everybody likes it
00:27:27.25\00:27:30.61
and it's a
wonderful aroma in the home.
00:27:30.64\00:27:34.29
You may wonder why we
chose to go to a wood cook stove
00:27:34.32\00:27:37.53
instead of a propane oven,
because you know now we have
00:27:37.56\00:27:40.93
a propane refrigerator.
Our philosophy in coming here
00:27:40.96\00:27:44.26
was to regain the time for the
father, so he can invest that
00:27:44.29\00:27:47.94
time into his wife and
into his children, and defining
00:27:47.97\00:27:51.40
a real, practical,
daily walk with God.
00:27:51.43\00:27:53.98
So as much utilities, expenses
as we can minimize, we would do,
00:27:54.01\00:27:58.59
and it's easy for our family
to go out and cut wood together,
00:27:58.62\00:28:01.91
where it's much harder to send
the father out in the workplace
00:28:01.94\00:28:05.43
and gain that money to pay
the utility bills, so this wood
00:28:05.46\00:28:08.95
cook stove
represents a regain in my time.
00:28:08.98\00:28:11.97
It doesn't just heat our
food, it also heats the house.
00:28:12.00\00:28:17.11
Very seldom do we use our
main wood stove, except when
00:28:18.26\00:28:21.67
it gets colder, usually
this wood cook stove is going
00:28:21.70\00:28:24.92
throughout the day and
heats almost our entire home
00:28:24.95\00:28:28.14
because it's a
simple 960 square foot home.
00:28:28.17\00:28:31.90
What's unique about this
stove though is that there's
00:28:31.93\00:28:34.98
a cabinet right next to
it and this has a hot water
00:28:35.01\00:28:38.06
tank in it. I
don't know if you can see
00:28:38.09\00:28:40.64
the plumbing pipes here,
but in the firebox there's
00:28:40.67\00:28:44.78
a water heater, so when we light
a fire in this stove, it heats
00:28:44.81\00:28:49.86
the water that's in the firebox,
and that hot water automatically
00:28:49.89\00:28:54.94
circulates, it's called
convection, so the hot water
00:28:54.97\00:28:58.49
automatically goes up and
the cold water comes through,
00:28:58.53\00:29:02.01
and now we've got all the
hot water we want for nothing,
00:29:02.05\00:29:05.48
it doesn't cost us a
cent. I've got 2 boys that love
00:29:05.51\00:29:08.91
to stand in the shower for
15 minutes, and if I was paying
00:29:08.94\00:29:12.56
for that, I might tend to
say to my boys "Boys, cut down"
00:29:12.59\00:29:15.90
"your showers", but it
costs us nothing but some labor
00:29:15.93\00:29:19.24
as a family. So
when we cook our food
00:29:19.27\00:29:23.00
we also heat our house,
and we also heat our hot water,
00:29:23.04\00:29:26.49
it's very efficient for
us, saves us a lot of money
00:29:26.52\00:29:29.94
on our utilities, and allows
us to throw the priority of our
00:29:29.97\00:29:33.32
time into our family.
00:29:33.35\00:29:37.32
I thought you might enjoy
seeing how we light this stove.
00:29:37.36\00:29:41.35
I usually start out with just
a couple pieces of split wood,
00:29:41.38\00:29:45.32
and then on top of that I've
got sawdust mixed in this little
00:29:45.36\00:29:49.27
contained with diesel fuel.
It's got a little cap on it
00:29:49.30\00:29:52.70
so you can't smell it when
it's in the house, and I put
00:29:52.73\00:29:56.10
a little bit of sawdust into the
firebox, with the diesel fuel,
00:29:56.13\00:30:01.88
and then I just light
that, and upon lighting it,
00:30:01.91\00:30:06.59
I then take some kindling
wood, and I place it in on top
00:30:06.63\00:30:10.33
of the fire, and that begins the
process of heating the stove,
00:30:10.36\00:30:15.20
it's a very simple,
easy process, it doesn't take
00:30:15.23\00:30:19.02
much time, it's relatively
clean, and it's kind of
00:30:19.05\00:30:22.81
quaint too, it's
kind of nostalgic.
00:30:22.84\00:30:26.13
I get a little bit of kindling
ago, and then I put a few larger
00:30:26.79\00:30:30.48
pieces on top of
that, and we're ready.
00:30:30.51\00:30:34.96
Probably within 5 minutes
we're ready to start heating
00:30:35.00\00:30:39.85
something, I can close
that firebox, and we're ready
00:30:39.88\00:30:44.65
to go. If you'd
like to see the water
00:30:44.68\00:30:47.20
jacket in here, I can
take the top of, you can see
00:30:47.23\00:30:49.83
the flames coming here,
and right in here is that water
00:30:49.86\00:30:52.86
jacket, that's where the
water goes through to be heated
00:30:52.89\00:30:55.84
by the fire that's in the
firebox; the only thing that you
00:30:55.88\00:30:58.82
have to do is you have
to continually stoke it,
00:30:58.85\00:31:01.49
it's not automatic, we haven't
figured that one out yet.
00:31:01.52\00:31:07.69
Right off the kitchen we
have a laundry room, we have
00:31:11.68\00:31:14.62
a washer and a drier, a
lot of people have thought
00:31:14.65\00:31:17.50
that my wife does her laundry
in the creek the way the old
00:31:17.53\00:31:20.05
people used to do it,
but that's not the case,
00:31:20.08\00:31:22.35
nothing's too good for my Sally,
and right above the washer
00:31:22.38\00:31:25.49
and drier is a set of
cabinets for her convenience.
00:31:25.52\00:31:28.07
You'll notice here, 2 years ago
we put in a hot water heater.
00:31:28.10\00:31:33.53
When my boys both go married
in the same year, we didn't have
00:31:33.56\00:31:36.20
quite the same work force
for cutting the wood, we thought
00:31:36.23\00:31:39.18
it'd be nice to have that option
because Sally and I are doing
00:31:39.21\00:31:42.13
a lot of traveling now,
and speaking and writing books,
00:31:42.16\00:31:44.75
we don't have quite the same
amount of time, so we can either
00:31:44.78\00:31:47.48
heat our hot water off
the hot water propane tank,
00:31:47.51\00:31:50.14
or off our wood cook stove.
Over to my right we have a water
00:31:50.17\00:31:54.52
storage facility, this is
what they call a Well-X-Trol.
00:31:54.55\00:31:59.58
Even though we have gravity
flow water, our spring is only
00:31:59.61\00:32:02.54
16 feet higher than the
house, that gives us about
00:32:02.57\00:32:06.19
4.3 pounds of pressure,
that isn't quite enough to have
00:32:06.22\00:32:10.75
a great shower, or to facilitate
our washer, so this tank
00:32:10.78\00:32:15.31
has a bladder in it,
and we have a 12 volt pump
00:32:15.34\00:32:18.53
that measures the pressure,
and whenever the pressure
00:32:18.56\00:32:22.24
in this tank goes bellow
25 pounds, the pump kicks in,
00:32:22.28\00:32:25.95
pumps the tank up to 45
pound of pressure, and the whole
00:32:25.98\00:32:29.62
system is pressurized, so we
have all the pluses that you do
00:32:29.65\00:32:33.26
in the city, without the cost.
00:32:33.29\00:32:36.01
Ladies, I'm excited
about showing you my pantry,
00:32:42.88\00:32:46.10
it may be small, but
it's mighty, come on in.
00:32:46.13\00:32:49.86
In here I wanted to organize
in a neat, orderly, efficient
00:32:49.89\00:32:53.12
manner all my things for
cooking. I cook on a natural
00:32:53.15\00:32:56.26
basis, and if can see, on the
top shelf I have all my flours,
00:32:56.29\00:33:00.00
any flour that any woman would
ever want for making something
00:33:00.03\00:33:04.15
wonderful is all right there
handy for me; all my legumes,
00:33:04.18\00:33:08.30
and any of my grains, and
different things, and my nuts,
00:33:08.33\00:33:12.42
all my cooking needs and items,
and I like to have everything
00:33:12.45\00:33:15.26
real quick and easy for
my efficiency in the kitchen.
00:33:15.29\00:33:21.33
I've enjoyed having this little
room, it's also a little coat
00:33:21.37\00:33:24.17
room, you can see the coats
hung up by very fancy hooks,
00:33:24.20\00:33:27.84
I might add, they're nails,
I picked them out and put them
00:33:27.87\00:33:31.32
where I wanted them, so each
one had a place for their coat,
00:33:31.36\00:33:34.69
and the boys learned neatness
and order from very little,
00:33:34.72\00:33:38.02
because I put the nails
low enough for them to handle
00:33:38.05\00:33:41.10
that they were responsible
for hanging their coats,
00:33:41.13\00:33:44.12
and that's what we need to
do with our children, especially
00:33:44.15\00:33:47.06
in a country living
setting, or if God calls you
00:33:47.09\00:33:49.79
to a wilderness setting,
we need to teach our children
00:33:49.82\00:33:53.13
the art of neatness,
orderliness and thoroughness.
00:33:53.16\00:33:57.62
Ladies, this is my
bathroom, and as you can see,
00:34:04.15\00:34:09.02
it's small, but well
adequate. We have a molded tub
00:34:09.05\00:34:12.87
that we have, that works
very well for us, a smaller
00:34:12.90\00:34:16.47
version than your typical,
and many people wondered
00:34:16.51\00:34:20.07
if we had inside
plumbing, and yes we do.
00:34:20.10\00:34:24.68
The boys have helped me build
cupboards, inside the little
00:34:24.72\00:34:27.96
shelves bellow the sink, which
are very handy, and don't come
00:34:27.99\00:34:31.21
in your normal,
traditional stand for your sink,
00:34:31.24\00:34:36.23
so I'm very
thankful for my boys.
00:34:36.26\00:34:41.22
With 4 of us in 1 bathroom
we found that with our hearts
00:34:41.26\00:34:44.45
right with the Lord, that
we worked together on that
00:34:44.48\00:34:47.40
and it didn't prove to be
any problem with us at all,
00:34:47.43\00:34:50.28
often 2 would shower in the
evening and 2 in the morning,
00:34:50.31\00:34:53.08
but actually we could just
shower all, one after another,
00:34:53.12\00:34:55.86
at any time we really wanted to,
so it was never a difficulty.
00:34:55.89\00:35:01.61
After we started receiving
calls to go out, we had
00:35:05.80\00:35:08.67
a dilemma, our house
was heated with wood, and it
00:35:08.71\00:35:11.59
doesn't automatically
stoke itself, what are we going
00:35:11.62\00:35:14.52
to do when the house is
shut down, with all our food
00:35:14.55\00:35:17.46
supplies, and things
that can freeze in the winter?
00:35:17.50\00:35:20.40
So I had to build a root
cellar, I'd like to take you
00:35:20.43\00:35:23.30
down into our root
cellar, and not just to show
00:35:23.33\00:35:25.97
you the root cellar, but
it also contains the area
00:35:26.01\00:35:28.75
that we placed our
battery system for the house,
00:35:28.78\00:35:31.55
and our inverter. So
let me take you down there,
00:35:31.59\00:35:34.33
and you get a
little feel for it.
00:35:34.36\00:35:37.20
It's about 9 feet underneath our
house, as you can see, we have
00:35:37.23\00:35:42.73
our food storage down in
here, which is kind of like
00:35:42.76\00:35:46.08
an insurance policy as
well, because if times get tough
00:35:46.11\00:35:49.35
and you can't buy your
food, we don't have to run down
00:35:49.39\00:35:52.56
to the grocery store
really quick, we can go on for
00:35:52.60\00:35:55.74
a number of months and still
have a reasonable food supply.
00:35:55.77\00:36:00.03
But we actually built it for
the purpose of when we leave,
00:36:00.06\00:36:04.32
that we wouldn't lose
all this to the cold weather.
00:36:04.35\00:36:07.94
Now, in addition to that
we've put in a battery system.
00:36:07.98\00:36:11.54
We don't turn on the generator
every time we want power,
00:36:11.57\00:36:15.10
I have a 1600 amp, 12 volt
battery system, the batteries
00:36:15.13\00:36:18.63
are right here, you can only
see half of them, 2 of these
00:36:18.66\00:36:22.14
batteries equals one 12
volt system, and I've got
00:36:22.17\00:36:25.90
4 of these systems hooked
together in a series, and that
00:36:25.93\00:36:31.44
gives me 1600 ampere, and
to this DC power into AC power
00:36:31.47\00:36:35.81
we have what is called an
inverter up here, and this
00:36:35.84\00:36:40.02
inverter then converts
that into AC so whenever my wife
00:36:40.05\00:36:44.20
wants to run a vacuum
cleaner, or she wants to use
00:36:44.23\00:36:46.90
her mixers, or she wants to
use her hairdryer, or anything
00:36:46.93\00:36:51.35
of that nature, we don't
have to turn on the generator,
00:36:51.38\00:36:54.93
the only time we turn on
the generator is in the morning
00:36:54.96\00:36:58.44
we run a load of wash each
day, and that keeps the whole
00:36:58.47\00:37:01.90
system charged up for the
rest of the day, and that's our
00:37:01.93\00:37:05.33
power supply system, and
it works very good for us.
00:37:05.36\00:37:08.90
Before we were involved in the
ministry the cost of operating
00:37:08.93\00:37:13.23
that system, our total utilities
for our house was running us
00:37:13.26\00:37:17.56
between $35-50 a month,
the total utilities for what
00:37:17.59\00:37:22.12
you'd pay for water, power,
heat, things of that nature.
00:37:22.15\00:37:26.65
With the ministry now,
actually our biggest drain
00:37:26.68\00:37:29.60
on our battery system our
phone system because we talk
00:37:29.63\00:37:33.23
for over 6000 minutes a
month, and the phone system
00:37:33.26\00:37:37.39
we have takes 50 watts of
power to talk on it, so that
00:37:37.42\00:37:41.96
drains our system, so
our present cost has gone up
00:37:41.99\00:37:46.49
dramatically, probably
up to $120 a month because
00:37:46.52\00:37:51.13
of the heavy phone
usage that we have.
00:37:51.16\00:37:54.73
Come on up and see
our 2 bedrooms upstairs.
00:38:06.22\00:38:10.24
In here we have
our master bedroom.
00:38:19.88\00:38:22.37
When we first came here this
was actually an open balcony,
00:38:22.40\00:38:25.47
we had to convert this
into a master bedroom so we'd
00:38:25.50\00:38:28.04
have 2 bedrooms in the
house. We put in the windows,
00:38:28.07\00:38:30.81
as you can see, right behind
the bed, and over to the right
00:38:30.84\00:38:36.41
you'll see we have a
little bookshelf that we placed
00:38:36.44\00:38:38.93
in here, and my wife has her
photo albums, as well as some
00:38:38.96\00:38:42.46
of her favorite little
books, and then over here
00:38:42.49\00:38:45.59
we have her Singer
treadle sowing machine.
00:38:45.62\00:38:47.92
It's a treadle ladies, no
electricity, just your feet
00:38:47.95\00:38:51.99
pedal it, and it sows absolutely
marvelously, only straight,
00:38:52.02\00:38:55.89
but at least it's better than
all sowing by hand, I love it.
00:38:55.92\00:39:00.22
It's quite a simple bedroom,
and just back to my right
00:39:00.25\00:39:03.83
is my closet, it's a very simple
little closet, it's only 4 feet
00:39:03.86\00:39:08.40
long, but it provides for all my
needs, always has for 20 years,
00:39:08.43\00:39:13.24
and over here to my
right is my wife's closet.
00:39:13.27\00:39:15.99
And Jim's implying with that
that I have a larger closet,
00:39:16.02\00:39:20.32
well, technically I do,
it's 1 foot wider, it's 5 foot
00:39:20.35\00:39:24.58
instead of his 4 foot, friends,
but as you can see, it still
00:39:24.61\00:39:28.40
accommodates me quite
well, all my needs are in here
00:39:28.43\00:39:31.46
and they all fit if I
keep it all simplified.
00:39:31.49\00:39:35.29
I moved from [?],
Wisconsin where I had a closet
00:39:35.32\00:39:38.95
that was at least double this
size, where I held my clothes
00:39:38.98\00:39:42.86
formerly, but the art of
simplification was good for me,
00:39:42.89\00:39:46.57
and the wilderness setting
provided that opportunity
00:39:46.61\00:39:50.17
to come to find God, and
become happy with my little
00:39:50.20\00:39:53.73
closet, I'm not
missing anything.
00:39:53.76\00:39:57.57
In here we have our
second bedroom, both of our boys
00:40:10.83\00:40:14.25
shared a room
together, over here on my right
00:40:14.28\00:40:17.88
was Matthew's bed, and you
can see some of our favorite
00:40:17.91\00:40:20.84
pictures on the wall, and
there was always an identical
00:40:20.87\00:40:24.30
bed like that over here on
my left, but 2 years ago my boys
00:40:24.34\00:40:27.83
got married, so we took that
bed out, and my wife surprised
00:40:27.86\00:40:31.35
me with my own little office.
So what was my boys' bedroom
00:40:31.38\00:40:34.84
before, now has
turned into my office.
00:40:34.87\00:40:38.04
So she went out and got me
a chair, a nice desk, because
00:40:38.07\00:40:40.95
before I wrote all my sermons
from a little-biddy JCPenny desk
00:40:40.98\00:40:46.27
in the master bedroom.
She wanted me to upgrade,
00:40:46.30\00:40:48.92
so she surprised me one
day, this has become my office.
00:40:48.95\00:40:53.96
So in my office now, when
I sit here, of course, I have
00:40:53.99\00:40:57.28
God's Word always at my desk
to guide me with the principles
00:40:57.31\00:41:00.78
of life, but then I have 3
pictures that are very special
00:41:00.81\00:41:04.24
to me, my older son and
his father when I married them,
00:41:04.27\00:41:07.65
and my younger son, and
father when I married them,
00:41:07.68\00:41:11.03
along with my wife
and I in the middle.
00:41:11.06\00:41:13.59
I've got all my loved
ones, and I love this room.
00:41:13.62\00:41:16.80
Quite often I get calls when
I'm writing, or I'm in my office
00:41:16.83\00:41:20.54
to do counseling that
people want help to accomplish
00:41:20.57\00:41:23.73
in their
marriages in their families.
00:41:23.76\00:41:26.18
So when people call me here,
I always have a word of prayer
00:41:26.21\00:41:29.47
before I counsel with them
because I don't have the wisdom
00:41:29.50\00:41:32.92
of myself to guide them, but as
I'm talking on the phone after
00:41:32.95\00:41:36.46
they call, I'll usually lay back
and I look over at this wall
00:41:36.50\00:41:39.95
on my left, and it has the
treasures of my life up there.
00:41:39.99\00:41:43.38
There's my wife and I in a
special picture, then there's
00:41:43.42\00:41:46.78
a family picture of my sons with
their wives, and Sally and I,
00:41:46.81\00:41:51.32
and I have each one of their
wedding pictures with their
00:41:51.35\00:41:54.05
brides together, and
that touches my heart because
00:41:54.08\00:41:56.78
that's what we moved here
for, it's about relationships.
00:41:56.81\00:42:00.33
This is a very special room
to me, I come her for prayer,
00:42:00.36\00:42:03.91
contemplation, my
own personal study.
00:42:03.94\00:42:08.09
A lot of you ladies are
wondering, "I wonder what"
00:42:08.13\00:42:10.26
"Sally does with all those odds
and ends that she has to tuck"
00:42:10.29\00:42:13.61
"away? She has
such a small home."
00:42:13.64\00:42:16.26
Well this bedroom, on each
side of the bedroom there's
00:42:16.29\00:42:19.10
an attic closet, I'm sure you
ladies would just love to get
00:42:19.13\00:42:22.80
into one of my wives
closets that nobody else sees,
00:42:22.83\00:42:26.89
I'm going to open up one of
those doors for you, I'm going
00:42:26.92\00:42:30.79
to let you take a peek into
one of my wives attic closets.
00:42:30.82\00:42:34.62
Ladies, you not only get to see
my wives secret closet, but this
00:42:34.65\00:42:39.01
is where the boys
played on rainy days too.
00:42:39.04\00:42:42.24
They not only played here,
but the boys were the ones that
00:42:42.27\00:42:45.37
actually built these walls
in here, these were their rooms,
00:42:45.40\00:42:48.58
and this was a home school
project for them, that they had
00:42:48.61\00:42:51.82
to build the walls
and the doors themselves.
00:42:51.85\00:42:55.87
Now that you've seen the inside
of our home, we'd like to take
00:43:05.18\00:43:08.20
you to the outside and show
you the surrounding grounds,
00:43:08.23\00:43:10.93
and some of the things that we
have done together as a family.
00:43:10.96\00:43:14.90
First, over here to my
right you'll see, we store
00:43:14.93\00:43:17.37
our kitchen wood here,
this is just a wood carrier that
00:43:17.40\00:43:20.51
allows us to take the kitchen
wood in the house very easily,
00:43:20.54\00:43:24.02
and next to it is a simple
little box for our kindling wood
00:43:24.06\00:43:27.53
to start our fires
with. Now I'd like to show you
00:43:27.56\00:43:32.15
the stairway, you may wonder
"What is interesting about"
00:43:32.18\00:43:34.60
"the stairway?" My
boys and I went out
00:43:34.63\00:43:37.80
into the woods and cut
down a large tree, and using our
00:43:37.83\00:43:41.59
chain saw and our chain saw
mill, we cut the tree in half,
00:43:41.62\00:43:45.24
you can see the 2 ends of the
tree on each side, and then each
00:43:45.27\00:43:48.88
step is another limb of
the tree that's cut off.
00:43:48.91\00:43:52.27
There's special memories
there because our family
00:43:52.79\00:43:55.84
learned these things
together, we worked together,
00:43:55.88\00:43:58.90
we played together, and we
went down to the river then,
00:43:58.93\00:44:02.40
and the river rock that
you see here, we took every one
00:44:02.43\00:44:06.33
of these rocks out of the
river together, we found them,
00:44:06.36\00:44:10.26
we loaded them on a
trailer, we brought them here,
00:44:10.29\00:44:13.25
and then as a family we
learned how to do masonry
00:44:13.28\00:44:16.21
work, it's not done perfectly,
nothing in my house is done
00:44:16.24\00:44:19.00
perfectly because it's
the first time that we've done
00:44:19.03\00:44:22.68
everything, but we did it
together, we learned together,
00:44:22.71\00:44:26.31
we experimented together,
so there's fond, fond memories
00:44:26.34\00:44:29.91
that we have here in this
home, not just with the stairs
00:44:29.94\00:44:33.22
and the rock work, but if
you come around the house with
00:44:33.25\00:44:36.53
me, we'll show
you some other things.
00:44:36.56\00:44:39.61
You'll notice the lawn first
of all, is a very green lawn,
00:44:39.64\00:44:43.52
and my wife had said that
you can't grow grass up here,
00:44:43.55\00:44:47.43
and I said that you
can't grow grass up either.
00:44:47.46\00:44:51.37
My wife says "I'm
going to grow some grass".
00:44:51.40\00:44:55.28
- I love grass.
- She loves grass.
00:44:55.31\00:44:57.61
You may not think much of that,
00:44:58.13\00:45:00.26
but we're sitting on
bedrock, we're sitting
00:45:00.29\00:45:03.71
on rock, and sand, and gravel,
not black dirt, so my wife
00:45:03.74\00:45:07.49
decided we had to have green
grass, so she, tenaciously,
00:45:07.52\00:45:11.27
made sure that
this grass came up.
00:45:11.30\00:45:14.05
This side of the house,
the first backside of the house
00:45:14.08\00:45:17.45
we did as a family, this side
of the house was done totally
00:45:17.48\00:45:20.85
by Andrew.
Andrew did 1 full side
00:45:20.88\00:45:24.21
by himself, and Matthew
did another side by himself,
00:45:24.25\00:45:28.14
and I did
another side by myself.
00:45:28.17\00:45:30.48
And then my wife loves flowers,
as you can probably tell.
00:45:30.51\00:45:34.26
- I love flowers. -
This is one of her little
00:45:34.29\00:45:36.82
flower beds to bring
these little wonders from Eden
00:45:36.85\00:45:39.54
- into our life. -
That's what I call them,
00:45:39.57\00:45:42.38
"wonders from Eden", and a
little work doesn't bother me
00:45:42.41\00:45:45.79
at all, I love the beauty,
it works into my heart and my
00:45:45.82\00:45:49.23
soul to remind me of
the Creator who created
00:45:49.26\00:45:52.70
these beauty wonders
to be reminded of Him by.
00:45:52.74\00:45:56.15
This little bush over here,
this is what kind of tree Sally?
00:45:56.18\00:45:59.09
- This is a Lilac. - My
wife wanted a Lilac tree
00:45:59.12\00:46:01.68
and I told her "Don't even
try, it won't grow in our soil"
00:46:01.71\00:46:04.94
"don't even attempt it", but as
you can tell, my wife's a little
00:46:04.97\00:46:08.25
smarter than I am, she's
got a lot more determination
00:46:08.28\00:46:11.80
sometimes, and the Lilacs
are not booming right now,
00:46:11.83\00:46:15.29
- but she loves... -
They just finished blooming,
00:46:15.33\00:46:18.76
Andrew gifted me with these
Lilac bushes, these and the ones
00:46:18.79\00:46:22.75
- by the outhouse. -
So come on, we'll show you
00:46:22.78\00:46:25.33
the front of the house, okay?
00:46:25.36\00:46:27.90
The front of the house is what
we look out on, they are our
00:46:27.93\00:46:31.25
large picture windows, we look
out on Glacier National Park.
00:46:31.29\00:46:34.60
You'll notice that the rock work
on the front of the house was
00:46:35.20\00:46:37.88
done by my son, Matthew,
and we have the same type
00:46:37.91\00:46:41.28
of stairway going up to
the house that was cut out
00:46:41.32\00:46:44.66
of a large log, and our boys
did it, and the railings have
00:46:44.69\00:46:48.88
special significance to
me because I can remember
00:46:48.91\00:46:52.48
the day that Matthew, and
Andrew, and myself, and our
00:46:52.51\00:46:56.02
Father, our God, was
working with us on this project.
00:46:56.06\00:46:59.52
We had a difficult time
leveling them, but we sat down,
00:46:59.55\00:47:02.96
we had prayer together,
we talked about it, and all 4
00:47:03.00\00:47:06.38
of us, my Father in
heaven, the boy's father,
00:47:06.41\00:47:09.96
plus their Father, and us
boys worked on this together,
00:47:09.99\00:47:13.88
and when I sit out here, even
now as I sit up in the chair,
00:47:13.91\00:47:18.03
I look on the Rocky Mountains
and I put my feet up here,
00:47:18.06\00:47:22.16
there's fond memories to me
because we did this together
00:47:22.19\00:47:26.26
as a family. This
represents what we
00:47:26.29\00:47:28.67
came here for, it's a
physical memory that our family
00:47:28.70\00:47:32.02
worked together, and
played together, and worshiped
00:47:32.06\00:47:35.37
together, and we still do
those things together as well.
00:47:35.40\00:47:39.23
Over here to my left on
the front porch you'll see
00:47:39.26\00:47:42.73
covered up is my
treadmill. I like to run daily.
00:47:42.77\00:47:46.21
If the weather's real good I'll
run on the wilderness roads,
00:47:46.24\00:47:49.26
but when the weather isn't good,
if it's raining, or snowing,
00:47:49.29\00:47:52.31
or sleeting, I uncover
this and I come out here in
00:47:52.34\00:47:55.64
the morning, I start out
at about 4.5 miles an hour,
00:47:55.67\00:47:58.94
I look out at the
Rocky Mountains, and I say
00:47:58.97\00:48:01.72
"Good morning Lord,
You're out here, aren't You?"
00:48:01.75\00:48:04.41
Quite often in the front yard
there's deer, grizzly bears,
00:48:04.44\00:48:07.21
there can be moose, and I can be
on this treadmill, and they're
00:48:07.24\00:48:10.99
just out here watching me,
so it's me, my God, and God's
00:48:11.02\00:48:14.84
nature, and that's what we
came here for, and I'm reminded
00:48:14.87\00:48:18.66
of that on a daily basis.
Now over here to the left,
00:48:18.69\00:48:22.09
when we were first
talking to you and we opened up
00:48:23.47\00:48:25.49
with Sally and I
sitting on the swing.
00:48:25.52\00:48:28.00
The swing has more to it
than that, this is what we call
00:48:28.03\00:48:32.85
"Swing time", and daily Sally
and I come out on the swing,
00:48:32.88\00:48:37.58
we spend our time out here
together, talking, reminiscing,
00:48:37.61\00:48:42.54
if there's something
that my wife wants to discuss,
00:48:42.57\00:48:45.26
this is the time of
day that I give to my wife.
00:48:45.30\00:48:47.96
It's usually half an hour
in the day, and it's usually
00:48:47.99\00:48:51.11
from 12 to 12.30, we call
swing time; it's one of your
00:48:51.14\00:48:54.26
- favorite times? -
One of my most favorite
00:48:54.29\00:48:56.08
times dear, time to
talk or discuss our problems,
00:48:56.11\00:49:00.25
or solutions for difficulties
in the home or family,
00:49:00.28\00:49:04.35
or reminiscing, it's really
fun ladies, just to reminisce
00:49:04.38\00:49:08.09
of those fun times with your
spouse, and it binds the hearts
00:49:08.12\00:49:11.81
together, and God is interested
in us binding our hearts
00:49:11.84\00:49:15.56
not only to Him, but to
one another in our marriage
00:49:15.59\00:49:19.08
and our family.
00:49:19.11\00:49:21.66
You've noticed that while we're
having swing time, just behind
00:49:21.76\00:49:25.66
us over here are some of
our favorite little creatures,
00:49:25.69\00:49:29.14
we've got squirrels that are
on the ground eating right now,
00:49:29.17\00:49:32.04
squirrels in the feeder that
are eating, and even birds too.
00:49:32.07\00:49:35.52
We want you to enjoy not just
the majestic deer, and the bear,
00:49:35.55\00:49:39.50
and things of that nature,
but the little creature God
00:49:39.53\00:49:42.62
loves too, He loves them
all, He made every one of us,
00:49:42.66\00:49:45.72
He made every one of
them, and you can develop
00:49:45.75\00:49:49.16
a companionship and
friendship with them.
00:49:49.19\00:49:51.82
Through the years my boys have
taken squirrels in the house
00:49:51.85\00:49:54.92
and raised them, they've taken
bunny rabbits into the house
00:49:54.95\00:49:58.04
and raised them, we've got
birds that feed out of our hand,
00:49:58.07\00:50:01.16
we've had a pet bear that even
when we're sitting on the swing
00:50:01.19\00:50:04.25
here, comes up and would eat
out of our hand, a little cub
00:50:04.29\00:50:07.34
from youth when
its mother was shot.
00:50:07.37\00:50:10.75
We came here to be close to
these things, this, friends,
00:50:10.79\00:50:15.50
is better than Disneyland.
I'm not taking a shot
00:50:15.53\00:50:18.37
at Disneyland, but the
world sells us the artificial,
00:50:18.40\00:50:21.92
we decided we wanted to
go back to God's original,
00:50:21.96\00:50:25.17
and get as close to it
as we can, and we have truly
00:50:25.20\00:50:28.38
benefited from it.
We want you to benefit
00:50:28.41\00:50:30.96
from it as well, wherever
you are, God has His wildlife
00:50:30.99\00:50:34.91
there for you, come close
to it because by coming close
00:50:34.94\00:50:38.86
to it, we become close
to its Creator as well.
00:50:38.89\00:50:42.14
Amen.
00:50:42.17\00:50:44.41
Sometimes we don't always
have something to talk about...
00:50:55.13\00:50:58.50
- That's okay. -
...so what do we do honey?
00:50:58.53\00:51:02.06
- We snuggle. -
We snuggle out here,
00:51:02.09\00:51:04.29
and we'll kiss, and we'll
hug, and just think about life.
00:51:04.32\00:51:08.24
We don't have enough time
in our society for that today,
00:51:09.14\00:51:12.04
we're too busy even to love
our own spouses, and our own
00:51:12.07\00:51:14.94
wives, and that's not right, we
need to simplify for a reason,
00:51:14.97\00:51:19.74
and that reason is that we
get more time with each other,
00:51:19.77\00:51:22.86
we get more time for projects
with our children, and we get
00:51:22.89\00:51:25.94
more time for our God, that's
why we came here, we didn't
00:51:25.98\00:51:29.00
come here to hide, we
didn't come here to run from
00:51:29.03\00:51:32.34
society, we came here for
a purpose, and that purpose
00:51:32.37\00:51:35.65
is being fulfilled in our life,
and our children's lives too,
00:51:35.68\00:51:39.66
and we want it
fulfilled in your life as well.
00:51:39.69\00:51:42.22
We want you to find that
purpose wherever you live,
00:51:42.25\00:51:45.09
it doesn't matter if
you're in Arizona, you can do it
00:51:45.12\00:51:47.96
in the desert, if
you're in Iowa you can do it
00:51:47.99\00:51:50.54
on a corn field, if you're
down in Florida you can do it
00:51:50.57\00:51:53.25
on the ocean beaches, if
you're in Maine you can do
00:51:53.28\00:51:55.77
it in the North Woods, wherever
you're at, you can duplicate
00:51:55.80\00:51:59.31
what we're doing the way
God directs you to do it.
00:51:59.34\00:52:02.95
We just hope that you'll
pick up on the principles
00:52:03.83\00:52:06.53
of simplifying, bring your
life down to the irreducible
00:52:06.56\00:52:10.46
minimum so that you
will have time for that
00:52:10.49\00:52:13.07
which really means the
most in life, and I can say it
00:52:13.10\00:52:16.11
in one word, it's relationships.
00:52:16.14\00:52:19.00
It's a relationship
where there's nothing between
00:52:19.03\00:52:21.44
my wife and me, it's a
relationship where there's
00:52:21.47\00:52:23.81
nothing between my God and
me, it's a relationship where
00:52:23.84\00:52:27.28
there's nothing between
the parents and their children,
00:52:27.31\00:52:30.78
and when you have
that, you have heaven.
00:52:30.81\00:52:34.82
You can start that here on this
earth, you don't have to wait.
00:52:34.86\00:52:38.19
Now, it's going to cost
you something, you may have
00:52:38.22\00:52:41.04
to change jobs, you may
have to change locations,
00:52:41.07\00:52:43.82
you may have to sell some
of those vehicles, you may have
00:52:43.85\00:52:46.83
to downsize, you may
have to get off the treadmill,
00:52:46.86\00:52:49.56
I don't know what it is for
you, read some of our books,
00:52:49.59\00:52:52.75
you'll get more ideas.
We simply want to show you
00:52:52.78\00:52:55.11
what we did, not that we're
the example, but if you can
00:52:55.14\00:52:58.17
learn something from our
example, listen to the Holy
00:52:58.20\00:53:01.55
Spirit and the Holy Spirit
will direct you in what He
00:53:01.58\00:53:04.91
wants you to do next,
just follow the Holy Spirit,
00:53:04.94\00:53:08.24
He's your guide,
not the Hohnbergers.
00:53:08.27\00:53:10.53
And find your resting place.
00:53:10.56\00:53:13.64
I see the signs
around me in the world today,
00:53:32.48\00:53:40.06
I feel a sense of urgency,
this is not the time to play.
00:53:40.10\00:53:49.12
Do you hear Him calling
out to you as you're busy
00:53:49.15\00:53:54.12
day to day? Do you hear Him say
00:53:54.15\00:53:58.15
"I miss you, spend
some time with Me and pray".
00:53:58.19\00:54:03.84
You're not wrestling
with flesh and blood,
00:54:03.87\00:54:07.27
you need wisdom from above to
carry out the great commission
00:54:07.30\00:54:14.08
and share the
message of My love.
00:54:14.11\00:54:18.86
We drove 2189
miles one way here.
00:54:19.82\00:54:24.43
We've been together all week
and it's been such a neat thing.
00:54:24.47\00:54:28.81
...flowers, and the
birds, and the squirrels.
00:54:28.84\00:54:33.15
We came on Sunday and we didn't
plan on staying the whole week,
00:54:34.16\00:54:38.36
but we decided we
didn't want to leave.
00:54:38.39\00:54:42.49
To see the nucleus of what
Jim and Sally had started out
00:54:42.67\00:54:46.02
with in raising their boys.
00:54:46.05\00:54:49.30
It's good to just see his
firewood's like my firewood,
00:54:49.34\00:54:52.17
and it's that practical.
00:54:52.20\00:54:55.81
The messages are
powerful, and then you see God's
00:54:55.85\00:54:58.82
people making it work.
00:54:58.85\00:55:01.24
It helps our family
grow a lot more in Jesus.
00:55:01.28\00:55:03.83
...Just the simplicity,
the humbleness, these people
00:55:03.86\00:55:07.07
are who they say they are.
00:55:07.10\00:55:09.55
In their home they
have the love, and their
00:55:09.59\00:55:14.01
Christianity is consistent,
it doesn't stop when things
00:55:14.05\00:55:17.47
- go wrong. -
When I went through
00:55:17.50\00:55:20.20
their house and I saw
how small and compact it was,
00:55:20.23\00:55:23.55
I think smaller is
better, and I wish that we had
00:55:23.58\00:55:26.90
a smaller home.
00:55:26.93\00:55:28.98
...but it is for the complete
family, for the children
00:55:29.02\00:55:33.08
as well.
00:55:33.11\00:55:34.70
It's like the whole property
is designed around family.
00:55:34.74\00:55:38.87
I thought I was a normal family,
but then when you realize
00:55:38.90\00:55:43.01
there's something
better out there, and you see
00:55:43.04\00:55:47.57
the happiness that a
family can have, it makes
00:55:47.61\00:55:52.11
all the difference in
the world, and you want that.
00:55:52.15\00:55:56.27
This is kind of a physical
example of what He's done
00:55:56.30\00:56:00.43
for one family.
00:56:00.46\00:56:04.76
And I believe He
can do it for us too.
00:56:04.80\00:56:08.47
A happy home is almost
extinct in this day and age,
00:56:08.69\00:56:12.70
and people need to see
that a happy home with Jesus
00:56:12.74\00:56:16.00
can be a reality, no
matter what your background is.
00:56:16.03\00:56:19.21
It's helped our family get
a lot closer to God, and as
00:56:19.25\00:56:22.40
coming closer to God we've
come a lot closer as a family.
00:56:22.43\00:56:26.31
The Hohnbergers' experience is
a picture of a lifestyle that I
00:56:26.34\00:56:32.24
- want to live. - And
I loves Jesus very much.
00:56:32.27\00:56:36.97
I can just feel God, He's
working in my life, little by
00:56:37.01\00:56:40.88
little the temper's going
away, I have more patience.
00:56:40.92\00:56:44.83
I wanted to experience
what they experienced because
00:56:44.86\00:56:48.74
I know that if God it to
them, He could give it to me.
00:56:48.78\00:56:52.63
The principles that Mr.
and Mrs. Hohnberger have shared
00:56:53.21\00:56:56.48
have helped us tremendously.
00:56:56.51\00:56:59.01
Jesus is my Saviour.
00:57:00.68\00:57:03.58
We've been on a journey with
God for 20 years, God is still
00:57:04.92\00:57:08.83
calling us higher, we're
willing to go as He directs.
00:57:08.86\00:57:12.73
I've got a feeling that
God is calling you to a newer,
00:57:13.63\00:57:17.05
deeper, journey as well,
we're launching off with God,
00:57:17.08\00:57:20.47
won't you too?
00:57:20.50\00:57:23.05
Jesus is the
power ever in my soul,
00:57:24.07\00:57:29.91
His the love that
makes the family whole.
00:57:29.95\00:57:35.78
Families thus united
set the church aflame,
00:57:35.81\00:57:41.97
lighting up the world
with power, and Jesus' name.
00:57:42.01\00:57:50.29