What I Couldn’t Tell My Folks: Bela Lemon
FamilyLife Today®
FamilyLife Network
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Ever feel scared to ask for help? Worried about what your folks might say? Bela opens up about the challenges of navigating college life, being in the party scene, struggling with an eating disorder, and her fam's reactions to her struggles. See how Bela found the strength to share her struggles with her family.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, before we get started we've got a question for you. How can we pray for you? |
| 0:05.0 | I love this question because we talk about a lot of serious things here on family life today |
| 0:11.0 | and those details about our families, they often need our prayers. |
| 0:16.3 | So can we pray for you? |
| 0:18.1 | We're serious. |
| 0:19.1 | Yeah, so here's how you can let us know. |
| 0:20.6 | Text FLT plus your prayer request to 80542 to let us know and it would be our |
| 0:27.2 | privilege to pray for you. That's text F.L.T. plus your prayer request at 80542. |
| 0:33.7 | We want to pray for you. |
| 0:35.0 | As a 15 year old, I remember that was a time where I genuinely had nothing to turn to but the Lord. |
| 0:49.1 | I almost lost my life because I was so underfed and struggling so much. But I look back on it now and it was one of the most beautiful times in my life because it was in that suffering that I really felt like I met Jesus. Welcome to Family Life Today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson. |
| 1:20.0 | You can find us at family life today.com. |
| 1:23.0 | This is family life today. So here's three words you don't often hear together. Okay. You ready? Yeah. You don't even know where I'm going. |
| 1:38.5 | No, I don't. Real life loading. Oh, yeah, this is gonna be a good one. I mean you don't always put those |
| 1:45.2 | three together it sounds super cool but do you know what it means? Yes I know what |
| 1:50.4 | it means. Real life loading. Okay tell our audience what it means. |
| 1:54.0 | Is a podcast with Shelby Abbott and Shelby's with us today. We're all talking together and |
| 2:01.2 | we get to share one of Shelby's podcast with our audience and |
| 2:07.4 | this is going to be fun. Well it's sort of fun I mean everybody knows Shelby |
| 2:10.3 | have its voice but today they get to know him as a person. |
| 2:14.0 | Shelby, welcome to family, I don't know why I'm saying this, welcome to family life today. |
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