Loving Through Mistakes | Kris Vallotton | Bethel Church

about six months later all my grand all the grandkids and all the family came for Thanksgiving to my grandfather's house and they weren't safe so they used to do a little you know drink a little too much and I had seven cousins who were all girls on the only boy and they're all city girls and their parents would make them come so they're down in the farm and everybody's having a party and my grandfather takes the keys to the 53 Dodge flatbed truck and throws into me and says go take the girls for a ride through the orchard I'm 15 am i all right so all you know the girls are like oh we don't I'm not no no grandpa said you get on the truck so they got a flatbed truck it's got these wood sides and one jumps in front and I'm driving through the orchard and I'm just going like a bat out of heaven they're bats in heaven and we're just going down this dirt road and there's a cliff right here there's a cliff right here and there and there's a river right here and we're just going well first thing that happens is we go through the orchard gosh fast we can go this is like 30 miles an hour everything's shaking you know on those trucks and the girls are hanging on and we go through this mud pool and we get stuck and I tell the girls you need to get off and push they're like no no we're not getting on I'm like no no you need to get off and push no no I said you're gonna walk out in the mud or you're gonna get out boquete so they get out and push whoa whoa whoa whoa dump the clutch Oh dual wheels covers them with mud these print P girls city girls are all covered with mud they're screaming and yelling we finally get out I'm like jump on jump on they all jump on so we're gonna strode here's fast as we can go everything shaking trucks never been this fast in its life and I forgot that the road was washed out river on this side cliff on this side narrow road the rooftop just in time and I own own we have to back up three miles so I tell my cousin Denise I go open the door and make sure we don't fall off the cliff no seatbelts in those days you know so I'll put it reversed and as fast as I can go and she goes there's that before she could say tree the tree grabbed the door and ripped it off it bent the door in half and ripped the top hinge off it was hanging just by one hinge and look you know it looks like a gall wing but it wasn't little grandpa's gonna kill you grandpa's gonna kill you so I Drive back really slowly and we pull up in the art and I say the girls don't tell anyone we did this they're like oh no yeah you're the one who did it we didn't do this they said don't tell anybody we did this he said oh no you're the one who does they run in there like grandpa Chris wrecked the truck my uncle's come out right that's their daughters - my uncles come out and my oldest Uncle Ray my Uncle Ray he looks at and my grandfather you know he's still waddling he don't move very fast so my uncle's up he's like what happened he looks at the doors you could have killed those girls what's wrong with you - screaming and yell at my grandfather whoa what's going on not backing up on a tree grab the door and ripped it off my uncle's ceiling and my grandfather wings that means I got this don't talk my uncle's long both my uncle own yelling my grandfather's off so um and so he's this one he goes oh you know what I've been wanting to take those doors off that tree off this truck for two years you know we don't need doors on this truck it's a work truck go get go get the ratchets the tools and take both doors off as he walks away he looks back and goes that was it first my uncle stayed and stared for a while you know what we need to create a place where people can feel successfully my grandson ripped the door off of my garage last year I saw the door coming down on top of the tractor and I ran to stop him and I went and ripped the door off and I started to say something then Cathy goes your grandfather grandfather do not what would Jesus do what would your grandfather do you know what is that moment that I had a revelation of how much my grandfather loved me last year I was like 45 years later I realized oh he he really loved me like I want to kill this kid right now these all pop up saw him oh it's no big deal inside I'm like you stupid kid what is wrong with you can you see the tractors there you push a button down on the old you idiot that's what I was thinking but it's all good come on let's straighten that door out I've never realized how much my grandfather loved me till this stupid kid ripped the door up my garage and Kathy's all she's following me out there just look out she's like remember when you ripped this sliding off your grandfather's garage did you know what shut up I'm just you know trying to remind like I know I hear you you know I know this is not easy to practice but it's something about loving people more than you love your stuff that isn't always our first reaction it's not that we don't love people it's just that we love our stuff and um anyway I just want to crash us into the ground right now and just say well I have eight more pages of notes I didn't think you'd like to stay for the rest of it but I do want to say that what would happen when we take hold of people and we make room for them to do stupid stuff and we don't make a big old deal out of it it's not that big a deal it's not that big a deal I remember one of our team did something really dumb many years ago it was in the front page of the paper and I called Bill to say tomorrow morning this is going to be the front page of the paper this his first worked out of his mouth the first was a long pause I know what he's going like long pause he goes do not throw him under the bus to save your butt do not I said all right he said it's our mistake take the blame that's my leader people are so quick like a chintz fault I didn't do it what happens we're just like it's not that big a deal so I call them back and I go hey that's not a big deal man you know what just work it out would you learn this is what I learned awesome awesome

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Id: 7Nsadih_tdk

Length: 8min 21sec (501 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 26 2015