The Friday ReFresh

This episode is brought to you by Magic Mind. Get 56% off your subscription when you use code "HEALINGHUMOR20" at https://www.magicmind.co/healinghumor ! Today is a special day. It won’t be a day that everyone will celebrate or commemorate from decades to come, but it is a day that my family and a few friends celebrate and show honor to whom honor is due. On July 17, 1996 my older and unmarried br...

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This episode is brought to you by Magic Mind. Get 56% off your subscription when you use code "HEALINGHUMOR20" at https://www.magicmind.co/healinghumor ! The year was 1812 and the shop was near Paris, France. A young three year old named Louis was playing in his father’s harness shop. He was playing with a sharp object known as an awl. Maybe it was a normal play for a boy who had been raised aroun...

This week Ben brings us a motivational story about the importance of perseverance and mental toughness to see the difficult time through. Links mentioned in this episode: http://www.benandtravis.com http://www.facebook.com/groups/benandtravis http://www.patreon.com/benandtravis Reframing Hope Book https://www.benandtravis.com/books Helping. Healing. Humor. with Ben and Travis: https://itunes.apple...

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The last Friday Refresh Before Christmas and all through the land the people were hustling with their presents in hand. The stockings are hung The halls are all decked. The lights are all flickering The lists are all checked. But it’s easy as such To become quite distracted. By the bustle of crowds All the stuff has attracted. But my hope for you In this holiday season Is remembering daily A much...

Welcome in the Friday Refresh brought to you by benandtravis.com. You can go there to find links to the Helping, Healing, Humor Podcast, the Good Old Fashioned Dislike Podcast, blogs that you can use for your bulletins, VBS songs, and much much more. So this year is a tough one for me. As most of you know I have five kids — and before you ask, I am very well aware of what causes that. They are a b...

Welcome in to the Friday Refresh brought to you by Reframing Hope - the rocking awesome book by Travis and Whitney Creasy found at BenandTravis.com. Life is a wild ride sometimes. But if we stop to think of all the things in life to be thankful for we might actually find that life has been better to us than what we often give it credit for. So stop this week and just say thank you. Thank you for t...

Go check out all the good content -podcasts, funsing, VBS songs, blogs, and funny videos. They are all yours to enjoy for free at BenandTravis.com. A recent road trip to a rural cemetery for a graveside funeral had me passing through many small towns. All through these towns on on the outskirts were buildings, houses, and barns that caught my eye. It wasn’t for the grandeur of them. Not at all act...

My six year old son had come to me with a serious question that was rolling around in that growing little brain. “Can only mommies and daddies see the wrinkles?” You see, I had just gotten through making him stand still while I sprayed wrinkle release onto his newly donned shirt and pants as he was getting ready for school. I had always assumed he knew what wrinkles were. I mean, I know what wrink...

This is your Friday Refresh brought to you by the Helping Healing Humor Podcast with Ben and Travis. Find the link to that podcast, the Good, Old Fashioned Dislike podcast and ALL kinds of good content at BenandTravis.com I recently saw a meme of two ladies walking in white headed for the pearly gates of heaven. One said, “I was the queen of A country” while the other stated “I’m the queen OF Coun...

Kudzu. I’m fairly sure you have heard of it. If you live in the United States or Japan I’m almost certain you’ve seen it. If you live in the South it’s just a part of your culture. The group Alabama starts one of their songs with the lyrics “it’ll creep up on you like a kudzu vine….” An Iuka Mississsippi based classic country radio station is called Kudzu 104.9. And the nickname for one of the mos...

As he stood at home plate and addressed the those in attendance and those watching at home he said: “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth…” A few minutes later as he concluded his speech he said “I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.” The statement is somethi...

I recently got an invite to a party. That invitation was followed up with a request for no presents for the person whom they were honoring. They simply wanted our presence. You have probably felt that same sentiment from time to time. One of my favorite pastimes is bow fishing. I don’t own a boat and I don’t really ever plan to. When people ask me why, the answer is simple: I enjoy bow fishing the...

Welcome to Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries at www. TravislovesHaiti.com They never worry. They never get tired. They never feel burdened. They have the an unwavering faith. They don’t mess up. If they touch it, it always turns to gold. Do you know these they’s? Does thinking about them keep you awake at night because you can’t figure out how they do it. How do they manage it al...

The Friday ReFresh brought to you by www. TravisLovesHaiti.com! It’s hard for me to imagine that there have been billions of people on the planet since the dawn of time and supposedly no too have ever been exactly the same. Even when folks have twins and doppelgängers there are still slight differences in some feature that has made them unique. I was thinking about this because recently I got a Eu...

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Welcome in to the Friday ReFresh brought to you by Liberte Ministries. Check them out at TravisLovesHaiti.com for more info! I read a quote recently from Carey Lohrenz that said, “Most people don’t want to be part of the process, they just want to be part of the outcome. But the process is where you figure out who’s worth being a part of the outcome.” Years ago I started helping the wise Christian...

Welcome to the Friday Refresh brought to you by Liberte ministries at TravisLovesHaiti.com. This Sunday some people will celebrating their father who is in the prime of his life. Some dads will be celebrating their first ever Father’s Day. Others people will be thinking of their Father that is no longer with them. Still more will struggle because their relationship wasn’t great with their dad. I h...

The Friday ReFresh brought to you by TravisLovesHaiti.com Links mentioned in this episode: http://www.benandtravis.com http://www.facebook.com/groups/benandtravis http://www.patreon.com/benandtravis Helping. Healing. Humor. with Ben and Travis: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/batify/id1457601152?mt=2&uo=4 *Reframing Hope: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1956811273/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UT...

Welcome again to Friday ReFresh brought to you by travisloveshaiti.com I would like for you to hit the pause button on whatever you are doing right now as you read this and ask yourself a couple of questions. First, what is the most important thing in your life right now? And follow it up by asking what you are doing for that most important thing? Even more humbling is the thought of what God will...

The Friday Refresh is brought to you by Liberté Ministries. You can learn more about their work at TravisLovesHaiti.com. For most of us, Celebrities live their lives high on a pedestal. A perfect pedestal untouched by the concerns and difficulties of the normal person. However, the older I get the more I realize that this could not be farther from the truth. Some of my “heroes” of the silver scree...

The Friday ReFresh presented by Liberté Ministries The last couple of weeks we have been talking about the Village and how we derive many benefits from relationships - Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual. Some of you, however, have had bad experiences with your village. Whether school, church, or family - it happens sometimes that we end up in a village that has been more hurtful than helpful. Whil...

The Friday ReFresh presented by Liberte' Ministries Last week we talked about the Need for a Village. Relationships benefit us in our physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Many times the village is just something that exists without effort - or maybe it used to be. Travis and I also enjoyed a large extended family. The other constant village has been the church. Of course schools also become...

The Friday ReFresh is presented by Liberte' Ministries and travisloveshaiti.com! Have you ever heard the phrase “It takes a village”? Whether you are looking back to the beginning of the Bible or scowering the interwebs for the social needs of humans you will find that everything you read points to the fact that we are social beings. It seems that everything from neuroscience to biology to psychol...