The Hope in the Middle Podcast with Pastor Alan McGrath - messages of encouragement to help us live in the joy for which we were created. Find more at hopeinthemiddle.com. Notes:

• Two goals as we travel through life: achieve or appreciate.
• We have forgotten to savor life - to really taste life around us.
• Three turns towards appreciation:
• #1 - Be Here
• "Where are you?"
• #2 - Pay Attention
• Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World
• #3 - Find Reverence
• You are part of something much larger.
• Action: Send your photos of your "polar bears" to Alan on the Hope in the Middle Facebook Page.