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Up next, the story of an ordinary man who did something extraordinary when he found out about an issue not very many people think about, child

bedlessness. Here's Luke Michelson of sleep in heavenly peace to tell his story of selflessness.

Our words, by the way, not his. Take it away, Luke.

You know, I'm from a small town, Kimberly Idaho.

3,700 people.

I went to school there, graduated there, and built my family up.

And I had my whole career lined out.

I worked for a local water treatment company and was going to be buying it and had my retirement set. I mean, I was all planned out.

And in 2012, personally, I was kind of going through this life crisis, this both faith and personal crisis, you know, where you just, you just don't

know what your mark is on this world. You don't know if this is the job you need to be in,

if this is the faith you should believe in, am I being a good dad? Am I providing everything for my family? And at the time, in my church

service, I was what was called the young men's president, like a youth pastor. And a young

men's president is responsible for the spiritual growth and the activity of the young men's program, which was boys ages 12 to, you know, 1617.

At that time, the church's activity program we followed was the Boy Scout. So I was kind of the leader over the Boy Scout leaders. And one day,

we were sitting with the other church auxiliary leaders and talking about the needs of not just

the congregation, but other people within the community. And there was one family particular that

was talked about. They were the local school bus driver. She drove bus. The father

suffered a little bit from some mental health, so I had a hard time holding down a job,

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