Awesome Families Are Enjoyable Families – Daily Hope with Rick Warren – February 10, 2026 – Daily Devotional

“People ought to enjoy every day of their lives, no matter how long they live.” Ecclesiastes 11:8 (NCV)

Here’s the primary frequent denominator of nice households: Awesome households are playful. They know learn how to have enjoyable. They take pleasure in life collectively. In different phrases, they know learn how to play. 

This is the lacking ingredient in so many households right now. These days, many households are too busy, too drained, too destructive, too worn out, and too severe. Who needs to return house from faculty to that? Families ought to be enjoyable. 

The Bible talks about this and really instructions it. Ecclesiastes 11:8 says, “People ought to enjoy every day of their lives, no matter how long they live” (NCV).

Why is it necessary so that you can take pleasure in daily? Because you don’t know the way lengthy you’re going to stay. You don’t know when you’ve acquired the following week or the following month. You don’t even know when you’ve acquired tomorrow. Whatever dwelling you’re going to do, you higher do it now. 

You can assume past your organic or adoptive household for this type of enjoyable too. If you don’t stay close to your loved ones, be taught to have this type of enjoyable in your church household. Being a part of a Sunday School class or small group may give you an amazing alternative to search out folks of all ages to take pleasure in life with.

When my youngsters had been rising up, I decided that the primary factor I wished them to find out about our household was not that we had been good or good—I wished them to know that they had been liked and that we had enjoyable collectively. And I created all types of issues to just do to have enjoyable. 

One of them was referred to as Daddy’s Magical Mystery Tour. The youngsters liked it. It’s a hallowed custom in our household. Now I do it with our grandkids. When the youngsters had been in preschool and grade faculty, I’d wake them up and yell, “Get out of bed! It’s time for Daddy’s Magical Mystery Tour!” And they’d get excited as a result of they knew that meant they didn’t should go to highschool and we had been about to do one thing actually enjoyable, whether or not it was driving to a resort with a pool or making an ice cream run.

You have to maintain this in thoughts: People don’t bear in mind what you say, however they’ll bear in mind the way you make them really feel. That’s necessary recommendation for a boss, boyfriend or girlfriend, mother or father, or partner. 

My youngsters don’t bear in mind most of what I mentioned within the early years of their lives. But they do bear in mind how Daddy made them really feel. They do not forget that we had a variety of enjoyable.

Awesome households are playful.

“I recommend having fun. . . . That way [you] will experience some happiness along with all the hard work God gives [you]” (Ecclesiastes 8:15 NLT).

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Rick Warren is an progressive pastor, famend writer, and international influencer identified for founding Saddleback Church, the Purpose Driven Network, the PEACE Plan, and Hope for Mental Health. He has written a number of best-selling books, together with The Purpose Driven Life, which has bought over 35 million copies in 200 languages. Time journal named Warren probably the most influential non secular chief in America and one of many 100 most influential folks on the earth. Since stepping down from the lead pastor function at Saddleback in 2022, Warren has continued to encourage folks via his Daily Hope Devotional and podcast Pastor Rick’s Daily Hope. His first guide in a decade, Created to Dream, was launched in April 2023.

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