It's Not Too Late for a Miracle
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Every parent faces challenges, but what do you do when a situation seems hopeless? Even if it feels dark today, please know, your story is not over. John and Danny give some encouragement to parents who feel weighed down by hard circumstances. Featuring Amber Lisa and Wendy Speake.
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| 0:00.0 | I think everybody loves a good comeback story you know you think it's over and then at the last minute something happens and the outcome ends on this amazing note and it feels good to think about things like that but the truth |
| 0:14.9 | is you yourself might need a comeback story in your parenting journey. |
| 0:19.9 | Well I'm John Fuller along with Dr Danny Wer. He's in charge of our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the Family. And today we're going to speak some hope for you as a mom or a dad. |
| 0:31.0 | Jim Daly and I spoke with Amber Leah and Wendy speak |
| 0:34.4 | about transitions that parents go through. |
| 0:37.4 | Maybe you're facing a situation |
| 0:38.8 | where you need something to turn around. |
| 0:40.7 | You need a feel-good comeback story. Let's listen in. |
| 0:46.0 | Amber, you went through a transition period that was tougher than you expected. |
| 0:49.7 | What did you come out with with that experience? What was the experience? |
| 0:53.6 | Well, my family, we ended up moving, my husband and our kids, to a little town about |
| 0:58.8 | three hours north of Los Angeles and we thought it was going to be really wonderful |
| 1:02.1 | that we were going to have all kinds of just |
| 1:05.2 | wonderful experiences in the country we were going to raise chickens was this Modesto we were going to |
| 1:09.8 | slow down at San Luis Obispo. Yeah. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, it was very beautiful. |
| 1:14.0 | But it was slow and it was small town and it was very different from what I was used to, |
| 1:19.0 | fourth generations, you know, being born and raised in the big city in LA. |
| 1:22.0 | And we loved it there. Our time there was such a huge. being born and raised in the big city in LA. |
| 1:22.7 | And we loved it there. |
| 1:24.0 | Our time there was such a huge blessing. |
| 1:26.0 | But it was also the hardest time of my life |
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