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There may be moments when you feel out of control, but even then, God is in control and has you and your children

in his hand. I'm John Fuller, along with our vice president of parenting, Dr. Danny Werta,

and Danny, there's nothing like that feeling that everything is going wrong and my plan is not

working and I'm out of control.

That's parenting, right?

I mean, listeners really, be honest here.

I'm sure you've had many moments like these where just things just don't seem to be going well.

You go, man, I think I just need to go to bed and reset.

Let's just start over. Yeah, yeah. We've had moments like that with, from kids getting sick all of a sudden.

I do remember this one time, John, where Heather and I went on an anniversary outing. We went to a

bed and breakfast in town. Okay. And our kids were staying with my, with my parents.

Man, what a great. It was right around Christmas time. We got to the bed and breakfast.

And late that night, I started to feel kind of weird in my stomach. I said, honey, I'm just going to need to go to bed early.

And then in the morning, I was throwing up. And the people hosting us for the bed and breakfast had an emergency and had to leave.

And they left our breakfast in the refrigerator.

We just had to get out of there.

And we locked up the place, this house that we were staying at.

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