At some point every parent needs to hand over control of their children to God.

Here's Nancy Damas Walgamuth.

Lord, I give this child to you.

It's not that you no longer love.

It's not that you no longer care. You certainly keep praying and loving and

and as God opens doors speaking truth into their lives, but you're not doing it as

an owner or as a controller or as one who can fix it.

You're saying, Lord, this child is yours.

This is the Re-Bibber Hearts Podcast with Nancy Dam Damas Walkerman, author of The First Songs of Christmas.

For December 13th, 2022, I'm Danna Gresch. Mary and Joseph dedicated Jesus at the temple as a newborn. It's an incredible scene, as Nancy DeMall Swagamuth

has been showing us in a series she started last week.

It's called, My Eyes Have Seen Your Salvation.

A group of women have been listening along and

they're going to share something they've learned about dedicating their

children to the Lord. I don't know if any of you have ever had a child who

struggled all their lives. Out of my four children I've had one

that from the get-go she has really struggled with depression even to the point

of wanting to harm herself. With children like that, it's more difficult

I think in a way to release because just something within the mother wants to feel like,

well I can do it one more book one more

message one more prayer one more talk and that's not the answer and I had to

come to the point eight years ago of deciding I'm not releasing my

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