When God Give You the Family You Never Expected (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Foster parents are often called “heroes” for bringing needy children into their home, but Jillana Goble argues that they are normal people who simply obeyed God’s call to care for orphans and widows. Joined by Jean Daly, sharing from their own experiences, they describe some of the common challenges of foster parenting, such as feeling overwhelmed, not knowing how past trauma affects behaviors today, loving children and giving them back to their bio parents, dealing with extra stress in your marriage and family and being stretched out of your comfort zone. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | As a new wife and mother, Shelly was trying to figure out her life and faith. |
| 0:05.0 | Then she found the help she needed. |
| 0:08.0 | I drink it, like a thirsty person would drink water. |
| 0:11.0 | I just, I loved it. every day I remember hovering around the radio |
| 0:14.6 | and listening and learning so much for focus on the family. I'm Jim Daly |
| 0:19.6 | together we can give families hope donate today at focus on the family.com slash gift and your |
| 0:26.4 | gift will be doubled. I love the verse that you quoted Jim about the Lord being close to the broken |
| 0:38.1 | hearted and I just think we have the privilege of being close to the broken hearted and that has also made me feel |
| 0:46.2 | closer to the Lord through that privilege of walking in the midst of the mess and the muck. |
| 0:52.0 | It has really been the most transformative |
| 0:53.7 | discipleship tool that the Lord has used in my life by being in proximity to those |
| 0:59.2 | with different stories than me. That's Jilana Gobble describing some of the unique challenges that moms and |
| 1:05.8 | dads face when they follow God's call to become foster parents. You'll hear more |
| 1:10.4 | from Jalana today on Focus on the Family. |
| 1:12.8 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm John Fuller and your host is Focus President, |
| 1:16.4 | Jim Daly. |
| 1:17.4 | You know, we had, I always say this on day two. |
| 1:19.6 | What an amazing conversation we had last time, |
| 1:21.7 | but it was an amazing conversation and it |
| 1:24.1 | was the good bad and the ugly of getting engaged in foster care and helping these |
| 1:29.1 | children to do better and ultimately helping the parents too. It's one of the additional benefits and man |
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