Encouragement for special needs parents with Jamie Sumner
Pardon the Mess with Scarlet Hiltibidal - Christian Motherhood, Biblical Parenting, Raising Christian Kids
Scarlet Hiltibidal and Christian Parenting
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🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The disciples were walking with Jesus one day when they happened upon a blind man. They asked Jesus whether the man’s parents or the man himself had sinned, causing him to be blind. Jesus said neither, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him” (John 9:1–3). And then Jesus put mud on the blind man’s eyes and gave him sight.
Discussing the truths of this passage of Scripture might be my favorite part of today’s podcast: the reminder that whether it’s sickness, health, disability, or poverty, God can use all of these things for his glory!
Jamie Sumner joins me with words of encouragement for those raising special needs children and for the rest of us walking the road with them. You will love her practical and heartfelt words describing her own journey in raising Charlie while also sharing some of the difficulties she’s faced with guilt, her marriage, finances, and managing disappointments and unmet expectations.
Jamie suggests how we can support those around us raising special needs children and how to guide our kids in their interactions with these precious kids. She encourages us to look at bravery in parenting from a different perspective and reminds us that our kids were God’s first so we can trust him in all the messy details.
I love how she ends her book, Eat, Sleep, Save the World: Words of Encouragement for the Special Needs Parent:
“Parenting a child who needs help to move, to speak, to interact with others is gritty. It takes courage and determination to know when to help and when to let go, when to fight for them and when to let them into the ring alone.”
Praying grit for every single one of us raising kids today!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, this is Cynthia Yanov, host A Pardon a Mess. |
| 0:07.4 | Parenting can get messy and that's why we're glad you're with us. |
| 0:10.2 | Each week we have honest discussions with our guests about the ups and downs of parenting |
| 0:13.7 | and the lessons God is teaching us along the way. |
| 0:16.4 | It's fun, it's real, and it's biblical. |
| 0:18.8 | We put our trust in a God who recripts our mess into His Greater Message. |
| 0:22.8 | That's the best parenting news we could ask for. |
| 0:25.0 | Join us each week on part of the mess as we walk the parenting road together. |
| 0:29.2 | Hey, guys, this Cynthia. |
| 0:30.6 | I am glad you're with us today, and I can't wait for you to hear my conversation today with |
| 0:34.6 | Jamie Sumner. |
| 0:35.8 | Before I kick that off, I wanted to mention one thing to you. |
| 0:39.0 | I've had several people asking me about getting copies of the identity cards I wrote last |
| 0:43.1 | spring and they are still available and I would love for you to get copies if that would be something |
| 0:48.1 | that would help you. A lot of people have told me they're ordering them for their graduates in their |
| 0:51.7 | life and they are sending them to graduates or even with a gift card, that kind of thing. Also, several parents have emailed me saying they'd |
| 0:58.3 | like copies to send a camp with their kids as kind of the camp care package type thing with candy, |
| 1:03.9 | I'm sure. But I want to read you a couple of the topics that I wrote on so you kind of know the |
| 1:08.3 | gist of them. There's things in there like you are gifted you've got |
| 1:11.5 | what it takes you're safe you are heard you are fully seen you're fully known you have purpose |
| 1:17.6 | you can stand alone so that's some of the topics are in these cards and so let me tell you a |
| 1:22.5 | quick story about them and then we will get to our conversation but i have a friend who had a housekeeper come to her house one day that she's never used before. |
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