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The Unfolding

Page 4: Clay Harrington

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9868 Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

For Clay Harrington, being a stutterer meant a childhood of teasing and humiliation every time he spoke in front of the class. That experience made him certain of one thing - he would never be a public speaker, and certainly not the preacher that his mother said he would become.

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Page four of the unfolding is the story of Clay Harrington. The fear of what will people think,

0:07.3

the trauma of stuttering when I was a child, and all those kids laughing at me in the elementary

0:13.6

schoolroom came up. And it was as if it was the voice of the enemy saying, who do you think you are?

0:20.8

God's story has been unfolding.

0:24.2

Since the beginning of time.

0:27.6

He invites you to be a part of it.

0:33.7

Another page in the unfolding.

0:51.3

Hi, this is Meredith Foster. God often uses your gifts and talents, but sometimes he calls you to do something that's not your strength. In fact, it might be one of your

0:55.3

greatest weaknesses. For Clay Harrington, being a stutterer meant a childhood of teasing and

1:01.6

humiliation every time he had to speak in front of the class. One thing he knew for sure,

1:06.8

he would never be a public speaker, and certainly not the preacher that his mother said he would

1:11.9

become. Tell me a little bit about your childhood, where you grew up, what kind of kid you were like.

1:16.4

Well, I grew up in a military family, so we moved around a lot. And so when I was, what, first grade

1:25.1

to ninth grade, I lived in Germany. Wow. And, you know, so I had a great experience, experiencing different cultures.

1:32.1

And growing up in high school years, I was living in Maryland, and then I lived some in Pennsylvania.

1:37.3

I went to school and college in Pennsylvania.

1:39.8

So I were, yeah, I would, I naturally just traveled.

1:43.6

And I grew in love with traveling. I could not stay in one

1:47.0

place for very long. That call was on my life to travel the world at a young age. Wow. Yeah.

1:53.8

So were you, what kind of a kid were you? I was, I was, you know, half mischievous, half,

1:59.4

half conservative, if you will. I will say you know, half mischievous, half conservative, if you will.

2:02.3

I will say that I tell a lot of people that I grew up as a drug baby.

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