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So I fly and I go and pick my dad up and tears are streaming down his face and he says, you know, I owe you and your mother an apology because alcoholism robbed me of my life and I sat there

you know just stunned because I saw the remorse and my response could have been, well you're

darn right, you know, and you're exactly right. But what I said was it's okay dad. You know we all have things where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

This is Tracy Lane from the Family Life content team

and your host are Dave and Anne Wilson.

This is Family Life Today. So today we're talking about some I was thinking about it this way it's like most people and maybe it's some people but I'll say it this way most people are walking around

with this little thing they're carrying and they don't even know they're carrying it but it's a weight and it's heavy.

Yeah. And I think most of us have it and we've been carrying it our whole life we don't even know it

and sometimes other people can see it and they sort of identify it and

you're like what you talk about I'm not carrying anything around and yet it's

real I see it as not just a weight I see it as a wound that's open

that people can look at it, they can smell it because now it's like festering and it's

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