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🗓️ 12 September 2023
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How do you stay hopeful when the dreams you had for your child don't happen? John and Danny address why it's good to grieve over your disappointed expectations. Plus, Jim Daly talks to Julie Hornok about how how she processed her daughter's special needs condition.
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| 0:00.0 | As a father of a child who has special needs, it's important to remember not to take myself |
| 0:08.0 | too seriously all the time. Sometimes what comes out did. There's |
| 0:14.0 | golden and I just have to stop, smile, |
| 0:16.0 | maybe even laugh about it, |
| 0:18.0 | and not worry about what I just heard or what he just did. |
| 0:22.0 | There are so many unpredictable moments and there are blessings in the ordinary. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm John Fuller in the studio with Dr. Danny Werther who heads up our focus on the family parenting team. |
| 0:32.9 | And we're going to hear now a conversation |
| 0:34.8 | folks, president Jim Daly, and I had with Julie Hornock. |
| 0:38.5 | She talked about ways she's learned to find joy |
| 0:41.6 | while raising her daughter Lizzie who has autism. |
| 0:45.0 | You had another funny story which was a dad named Kirk I think who had a son |
| 0:50.1 | JJ what was his situation. Yeah Yeah he went into the dry cleaners with his |
| 0:55.3 | son and his son was unhappy with him because he had said no to ice cream and |
| 0:59.2 | all of a sudden he just hears just this ripping sounds and this is a grown man, you know, it's like an 18 year old man. |
| 1:07.6 | And he had tactile issues too, which is a common thing. |
| 1:10.2 | Tactyl issues. |
| 1:11.2 | So he just started getting angry and ripping his clothes off and so he |
| 1:14.9 | stripped him all off in the middle of the in the middle of the dry cleaners naked just |
| 1:19.2 | there I was like yeah one less pants I think you get the better into that with the pat on the |
| 1:24.3 | belly yeah oh my gosh I mean count your blessings we had many many naked times in our lives so |
| 1:31.1 | I could yeah that was just you you know, but not when she, as an adult, so thankfully |
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