Effective Compassion: In pursuit of hope - S4.E4
The World and Everything In It
WORLD Radio
4.8 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Dave Flue had no intention of adopting children when he and his wife Ashley married in 2008. |
| 0:06.6 | Ashley had. |
| 0:07.6 | It kind of sounds bad when I say, you know, love, but you know, just the feeling I had, you |
| 0:12.0 | know, our biological kids, I felt like we're my kids and I was worried that I wouldn't |
| 0:15.7 | be able to love other people's kids as well as they deserve as well as they should. |
| 0:21.7 | Ten months after the wedding, they had their first daughter. |
| 0:24.8 | The next daughter came in 2012. |
| 0:27.2 | And then we kind of thought we were done. |
| 0:29.7 | I was kind of holding firm on not adopting, but there was a woman at our church. |
| 0:34.4 | The woman, Sherry, had taken in two girls, the daughters of a close friend. |
| 0:39.0 | The girls were reunited with their mother, only to be removed again. |
| 0:43.5 | And Sherry sent out kind of an SOS to the entire church and she said, it looks like these |
| 0:49.3 | girls are going to have to be adopted. |
| 0:51.1 | Is there anybody who can take them? |
| 0:52.9 | They even Ashley read the message separately while it worked. |
| 0:56.0 | That evening, after their daughters were in bed, they discussed opening their home and |
| 1:00.6 | their hearts to two more daughters. |
| 1:03.1 | What I think is interesting about our story is that I think a lot of families think about |
| 1:09.1 | it for a really long time. |
| 1:11.3 | For us, we went to work one day as a family of four. |
| 1:15.7 | And by the time the night fell, we were considering being a family of six. |
| 1:21.6 | Just in an instant, we said, okay, you know, what does God have for us in this and how |
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