We open the week with a pretty raw email from a hurting man, a hurting dad.

He's sad over the brokenness of this world, and that brokenness hits home for him very

closely.

Here's this story sent in as an anonymous email.

Dear Pastor John, to be totally truthful and honest with you, I struggle to believe

the Lord is completely ruling his world today.

It's impossible to believe simply because of the state of the world.

Or should I say his world today?

Not only has our nation gone down a slippery road of immoral self-destruction, but our

economy is faltering.

National debt is skyrocketing.

The unborn or masquerade daily murder race in America are swelling.

In Chicago, the crime rate has escalated to such a high degree that I'm beginning to

believe it's safer in Iraq or Afghanistan that it is in this outside.

Most children sleep under their beds in fear that they may become victims of

gun violence.

Struggles hit home for us to a family of four we have a son born with ADHD.

And this has created a life of pure frustration, pain, sorrow, and sometimes even despair.

One night while attempting to do his schoolwork across the kitchen table, he told me, dad, I hate

going to school.

Even the teachers make fun of me.

I hate ADHD and this medication that makes me sick to my stomach.

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