Seeing God Through My Son's Autism (Part 1 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.7 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Emily Colson explains how her view of God has changed, through years of struggling to raise an autistic son as a single parent. She describes painful situations she’s encountered in public, where people have been rude or hostile to Max because he is not acting normally. She says “God doesn't want Max to be 'normal', He wants him to be more like Jesus.” (Part 1 of 2)

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0:00.0	Marriage podcasts usually go one of two ways.
0:03.0	Relatable, but not helpful, or helpful, but totally unrelatable to your marriage.
0:09.1	The crazy little thing called Marriage Podcast has all the,
0:12.4	whoa, that's me, marriage stories.
0:14.7	And wow, I never knew that.
0:16.8	Clinical wisdom to help your marriage thrive.
0:19.3	Crazy little thing called marriage will be your favorite lesson of your week.
0:22.6	An amazing marriage is possible.
0:24.5	It begins with you.
0:26.3	Listen on your favorite podcast app.
0:30.0	See God's goal for Max is not that he become like other young men.
0:41.0	God's goal for Max is that he become more like Christ.
0:47.6	That's the perspective of today's guest Emily Colson,
0:50.8	discovered through years of difficulties as a single mom of a son with autism.
0:55.6	And she has more insight to share on today's focus on the family.
0:59.7	Your host is focus president and author Jim Deley and I'm John Ful.
1:04.0	Here at Focus on the Family, one of our major goals is to celebrate life and to remind folks
1:10.0	that we are created in the image of God.
1:12.5	And today's speaker really has a neck for encouraging us to see the image of God in children
1:17.5	with special needs.
1:19.1	But her passion was born out of some pretty devastating circumstances as you're going to hear in just a moment.
1:25.6	Emily Colson is a popular speaker and author of the award-winning book Dancing with Max.
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