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Christmas Morning Video 12 25 17 - Duration: 4:52.

Well good morning, my friends!

Welcome to Live Inspired, Christmas morning edition, with John O'Leary!

It is a delight to be with you on this morning.

In preparation for this video, I asked a whole bunch of colleagues, people that I work with,

people that I respect, people that I want to share their hearts with you.

What kind of message they would encourage me to share on this Christmas morning.

And it ranged from people saying, you know, just tell them Merry Christmas.

Have a great day and enjoy your friends and family.

To the encouragement from many folks for me to share some of the memories from my past,

favorite Christmases, or what today that I'm doing with my own family.

But one of the pieces of advice I received from a person that I really do look up to

and respect dearly, the advice was this:

Tell them whatever you want.

Just don't talk about anything with God in it.

It's Christmas morning.

You don't want to go there with the group of followers, with a couple 100,000 people

online.

You don't want to go there with your followers.

And my friends, it's that bit of advice that I'm going to listen to.

But not in the way, I think, that the person intended me to.

Instead, I'm going to take it from the exact opposite spectrum.

I'm going to talk briefly today about my faith and about why we celebrate this morning.

Why we think it's so important to us as a family.

And it begins, for me, as a kid.

You know, we take on the virtues and the values and even the faith, frequently, of our parents.

I remember waking up every single Christmas morning as a kid, little guy, man.

You'd wait at the top of the steps, eventually by the time six kids got out of bed and we'd

shake our mom and dad awake.

We'd get them up.

Dad would tiptoe down the steps to see if any presents came.

And I believe on every single year I had growing up, presents did in fact come.

We would run down the steps.

We would sit in this family room.

The fire would be burning.

Mom would have a robe on.

Dad would have a coffee in his hand.

And we kids would sit around, drooling at the opportunity to rip open these babies,

these presents.

Could not wait!

Could not wait to see what we'd received.

But every single Christmas, there was a pause.

My mean dad would walk into the living room.

He would grab the family Bible, and he would turn to scripture verses that reported the

birth of Jesus.

He would begin reading it, and then he would pass it to my mom.

And then mom would take over and she would read a little.

And then she would pass it to my brother Jim.

Jim would read it.

And then my sister Cadey.

And we'd just keep going sequentially through.

My sister Amy.

My sister Amy would then pass it to me.

8 years old, 7 years old, 9 years old.

Even later on in life.

26 years old when I was still at home for a season.

I would read it.

I would read it, then pass it to my sister Susan.

And then eventually, she would pass it on to our youngest sister Laura.

Every single year for my childhood, and then adolescensy, and then even college and beyond.

That's how we began Christmas.

And even this year, 2017, that's how we began Christmas.

My kids lined up, they wait for dad to tiptoe down the steps to see if presents may have

come below the tree,, they come down the stairs, and yet before they rip open those presents,

we sit in this painful pause to be reminded as a family again why we celebrate what we're

celebrating.

And so my friends, on this Christmas morning, I don't know how you're spending your morning.

I don't know how you follow through on your family traditions growing up.

I don't know what you find important in your faith life, in your values, in your character,

and what you're doing later on today.

And what really makes you work.

What turns you on and what turns you off.

But for us, our faith guides us.

It's the reason for hope and joy in our lives.

And it's also the reason why we celebrate this season, so i wanted to share this short

story with you today to encourage you to know that in spite of adversity we face in our

families, financially for many of us, in health for almost all of us, in our countries, in

our relationships with neighbors and colleagues and at work and beyond.

In spite of all of that, this season reminds us that there is reason for hope, there is

reason for perseverance, and there is reason for great joy.

My friends, I love you.

I appreciate you.

I wish you a Merry, Merry Christmas, a wonderful day, a great start to your week, and a reminder,

loud and clear,

Hark the Heralds!

The best is yet to come.

This is good news.

It is worth opening up this Christmas morning.

God bless you guys!

Have a great day!

For this time, and until next time, this is John O'Leary.

Christmas morning edition!

And this is your day.

Live Inspired.

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Waiting for Wanetta: A Holiday Memory from the GSMA Video Archives - Duration: 4:00.

NARRATOR: December 3rd is a special day at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

It's the day that Wanetta Johnson delivers a poinsettia to park headquarters as she

has done every December 3rd for the past 35 years.

And not just any poinsettia,

it's the largest and most beautiful poinsettia her florist in Johnson City, TN,

can provide because this is not simply a holiday decoration.

This poinsettia represents Wanetta's appreciation to the park for saving her

son Eric's life over three decades ago.

This year, Eric joined his mother on her

annual visit and recalled what happened back in 1974 during a Thanksgiving

backpacking trip when he and high school friend Randy Laws became snowbound for

three days at the Tricorner Knob shelter on the Appalachian Trail.

ERIC: It started snowing heavily early in the afternoon.

Because we didn't want to be hiking while it was snowing so heavily,

we decided to spend that night at Tricorner Knob shelter and

make up the difference the next day.

Unfortunately, on Sunday morning when we woke up, the snow had still been falling.

It had been falling all night, and by that time,

the snow had accumulated in drifts of four to five feet.

NARRATOR: After two hours of trudging through the snow,

Eric and Randy realized they had only covered about a quarter of a mile.

Wisely, the two experienced young backpackers returned to the shelter to spend another night.

MCCARTER: The weather was terrible.

Freezing snow.

High winds. Blowing winds.

Trees bending over and everything.

I was with the group that got the snowmobiles stuck,

and we were just stuck there trying to get it unstuck.

And they determined to use a helicopter.

And that's how they first spotted them.

ERIC: I put my partner's red backpack as a signal

outside the shelter on a stick because it was bright red and I figured it would

be readily visible from the air.

And I also stamped out the word "Help"--H-E-L-P--in about 20-foot-high letters in the snow.

NARRATOR: Park Rangers and a Chinook helicopter crew from Fort Campbell

located and rescued the freezing and exhausted boys amid torturous winds.

And with that, an amazing story that included epic snowfall,

two boys will to survive, multiple rescue attempts by the Park Service,

and eventually the assistance of the army gained a new chapter--

the incredible dedication of a mother who remembers, still, that the ending to this

story could have been much different.

WANETTA: My cup's running over with happiness.

You saved Eric's life and that means you saved ours.

It's just my way of telling the rangers, well, they risked their lives that day.