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🗓️ 8 June 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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0:00.0 | Happy Friday, every one. |
0:06.3 | Today we're going to do something a little bit different. |
0:08.5 | Instead of a question, we're going to encourage one particular listener and hopefully many |
0:12.9 | like her. |
0:14.3 | This is a letter from Pastor John to a mother he knows personally who wrote him because |
0:19.3 | she needs strength in the great calling that she carries. |
0:24.2 | She's been caring for a disabled son for over 20 years. |
0:29.0 | Someone who cannot talk, a son who cannot dress himself, a son who cannot feed himself. |
0:35.7 | He's now turned 20 years old. |
0:38.3 | And most of us can only imagine the enormity of the burden this mom carries every day |
0:44.3 | as his primary caregiver now for over two decades. |
0:49.4 | So Pastor John, what did you say to this amazing mom in your letter? |
0:54.8 | Maybe what I should do is this. |
0:57.3 | I'm sure this mom would not want me to lift her up as a hero and make her name public |
1:07.0 | or her situation known. |
1:09.4 | So I won't. |
1:10.4 | But I know that she wouldn't mind if I took this public occasion to share with others the |
1:19.6 | kind of encouragement I wanted her to feel. |
1:24.5 | Because there are thousands of moms and not just moms of course, who quietly carry huge |
1:32.6 | burdens for their disabled children and for other relatives. |
1:39.0 | And I am sure that they often feel like this is one of the loneliest jobs in the world |
1:47.7 | with little or no public recognition or reward. |
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