Sho and Patreece Baraka: Parenting Autism–and Dealing with Shame
FamilyLife Today®
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Parenting their sons' autism, Sho Baraka and his wife Patreece felt blindsided—including a loss of dreams and sense of failure. But God met them in their shame.
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| 0:00.0 | Love is not based on performance, and that no matter how well our, our disappointing our kids perform, if you will, that doesn't change our affection for our children, because the reality of it is, is that God looks at us, and we don't perform well at times, and we don't do the things that God has called us to do, but yet that doesn't change his affection and his love for us. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I'm Ann Wilson. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our Family Life app. |
| 0:43.0 | This is Family Life. |
| 0:45.0 | Today. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, I have a confession to make. Often when we're in the studio, part of me thinks we're the coolest couple in the room. |
| 1:06.0 | I know I've never thought that once in my entire life. I mean, I'm obviously lying right now. I've always wanted to think I'm the coolest. But I've sit here today thinking, I don't know if we've ever had a cooler couple sitting across from us. |
| 1:19.0 | I mean, look, he walked in with this jacket. How do you describe it? It's like a cool smoking jacket. |
| 1:25.0 | It's like crushed by the lure. |
| 1:27.0 | Crush the lure. But I'm guessing he's not he's not smoking the jacket and his wife. I don't know. He's kind of smoking in the jacket. |
| 1:34.0 | Oh, yeah, we might have to end this interview early. You know what's going to happen. |
| 1:40.0 | Anyway, sitting across the table from us here at Family Life Today is Shoburaka and his wife Patrice. And we just, we're excited to have you in Orlando, Florida on Family Life Today. |
| 1:49.0 | Excellent. Well, thank you for having us. Thank you for having us. |
| 1:51.0 | Are you guys glad to be here? I am. |
| 1:53.0 | I mean, do you dress up like this for everybody or is it just us? Just you guys. Just you guys. |
| 1:57.0 | Yes. |
| 1:59.0 | There you go. There you go. Just you guys. |
| 2:01.0 | Yeah, when we get to talk about a really interesting topic that I'll let you introduce. |
| 2:05.0 | Tell us a little bit about your family because I think that'll take us on a journey to where we're going to go today. |
| 2:09.0 | Yeah. So Patrice, my lovely wife and I have been married 19 years. We have three wonderful children, Zoe, who is our oldest. She's 17. |
| 2:17.0 | We have a 50-year-old Zakai and a nine-year-old Zimri. And our two boys are on the autism spectrum. |
| 2:25.0 | And so oftentimes we get asked to talk about that. What is that? Like just loving and serving and raising children on a spectrum. |
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