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Stage One: You believe in Santa Claus

Stage Two: You no longer believe in Santa Claus

Stage Three: You are Santa Claus

Stage Four: You just look like Santa Claus

• No matter what season of life you are dealing with, the Holy Spirit is there in you and with you.

• You need to assist your aging parents while they are yet living so that you are ready for the day they have to leave.

• No matter what they did for you or didn’t do for you, do not waste the precious time you have building a wall of anger, guilt or bitterness.

• Part of our responsibility toward our parents is to assist them in living, and when it is time, to assist them in leaving.

1. The issue of proximity, 3-9

• You never know who you are going to need before your journey is over, so treat everyone with love and respect.

• On top of all your plans sit

the plans of God.

1. The issue of proximity, 3-92. The issue of provision, 10-11

A. Requires communicationB. Requires participation

• Being a parent for your parent can unlock your family’s hidden dysfunction, confuse your aging parents, and open old sibling rivalries.

• We have to believe and decide to know that God can use the actions of our enemies as an angle to elevate us.

1. The issue of proximity, 3-92. The issue of provision, 10-113. The issue of the promise, 48:15-16,22

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