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The World and Everything In It

Effective Compassion: In pursuit of hope - S4.E4

The World and Everything In It

WORLD Radio

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4.87K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

How can Christian parents effectively foster hope in children whose traumatic past gives them little hope for the future? Choosing to love children not their own—whose behavior often does not foster familial love—builds trust. That fosters better communication, self-discipline, good character, and, by God’s grace, hope in the one who will never leave them or forsake them.You can hear each of the season 4 episodes earlier each week by subscribing to the Effective Compassion feed anywhere you get your podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/effective-compassion/id1492139540 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/effective-compassion/id1492139540)North Korea is one of the most secretive, closed-off countries in the world, but World Help has a network of trusted partners there with 20+ years of experience smuggling Bibles and other aid to believers. These partners use donations to print, ship, and secretly distribute Bibles as well as food to people who have been desperately praying for help. And since North Koreans share their Bibles with trusted family and friends, each copy impacts around five people. Click here (http://worldhelp.net/podcast) to learn more and donate.

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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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