The Ultimate Gift, Session 4

Guests: Jordan Whicker, Ethan Severin, Cole Travis

 

The Ultimate Gift is a fictional story about the journey of a young man named Jason Stevens who is the spoiled, rotten grand-nephew of Red Stevens, who leaves a series of “gifts” for Jason to learn, under the guidance and tutelage of his attorney friend Theodore J. Hamilton. Each chapter is a new “gift” that Jason must learn - and, as a young man, you need to learn as well.

 

The Gift of Gratitude

“I have often found it ironic that the people in this world who have the most to be thankful for are often the least thankful, and somehow the people who have virtually nothing, many times live lives full of gratitude.”

 

GK Chesterton quote:

“Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.”

 

“The legacy of the Golden list” - those ten things that you are truly thankful for in your life…Jason’s list: his health, his home,his friends

 

Book recommendations:

The Pursuit of Holiness by Jerry Bridges

Play the Man by Mark Batterson

 

The Gift of a Day

“When you face your own mortality, you contemplate how much of life you have lived versus how much you have left. It is like the sand slipping through an hourglass. I know that at some point I will have the last day of my life. I have been thinking about how I would want to live that day or what I would do if I had just one day left to live.”

• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch…

“But after much thought, I have come to realize that my perfect day would be filled with the best of the simple things.”

 

Walk slowly - the most important person is the one right in front of you.

 

The Gift of Love

Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way to keep it is to give it away.

 

“Love is a misused and overused term in our society. It is applied to any number of frivolous things and pursuits; but the love I am talking about in the gift of love is the goodness that comes only from God.”

 

“When we truly love others, our love makes each one of us a different person, and it makes each one we love a different person too.”

 

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Huge thank you to Jared Wood for allowing T4M to use his music in our intro and outro selections.