When God Hasn't Answered Your Prayers (and Parenting A Special Needs Child)

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Christianity, Parenting, Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

When his oldest son was diagnosed with severe autism, pastor Jason Hague found himself trapped, stuck between perpetual sadness and a lower, safer kind of hope. This is the common struggle for those of us walking through the Land of Unanswered Prayer. Life doesn’t look the way we expected, so we seek to protect ourselves from further disappointment.But God has a third path for us, beyond sadness or resignation: the way of aching joy. Christ himself is with us here, beckoning us toward the treasures hidden in the darkness.Join Host Jerrad Lopes as he interviews Jason about his newest book, Aching Joy. Aching Joy is an honest psalm of hope for those walking between pain and promise: the aching of a broken world and the beauty of a loving God. In this place, rather than trying to dodge the pain, we choose to feel it all—and to see where Jesus is in the midst of struggle. And because we make that choice, we feel all the good that comes with it, too.This is Jason’s story. This is your story. Come, find your joy within the aching.

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0:00.0	How's it going guys?
0:02.0	Jard Lopes back here with you on the Dad Tired podcast.
0:05.0	So good to be back here with you.
0:07.0	Hey, happy Christmas pre-week season.
0:12.0	Hope you're having a good and not super chaotic holiday Christmas pre-week.
0:20.0	Speaking of that, we are, I'm going to take a break on the podcast for next week because next week is Christmas if you can believe that if you haven't bought a gift for your wife and your kids and your in-laws and your mom. You should definitely do that like today
0:33.6	Amazon prime baby so get some gifts because Christmas is next week
0:38.0	Today's Monday the when this episode is being released Monday the 17th and next Tuesday is Christmas in
0:46.0	case you didn't know and then the next week is New Year's Eve which you
0:51.8	probably knew because you've been on this earth a long time but
0:54.7	just want to give you a heads up that there's some big weeks coming up in the next two weeks
0:58.4	so we're going to take a quick break and then we'll be right back on Monday, January 7th.
1:05.0	We'll jump right back into the show.
1:07.3	So just marking calendars for that.
1:09.3	Next couple of weeks we're off and then January 7th,
1:11.5	we're back on. If you didn't know already and if you're
1:15.5	thinking of gifts for Christmas gifts we do have a devotional, Dad Tired
1:18.9	devotional. For those of you wives that sneak into the show and try to listen
1:24.1	Super glad you're here. Thanks for hanging out and sneaking in
1:27.3	But also your husband probably would love the dad tire devotional so you can pick that up go to dad tire
1:32.3	com and it'll be the first thing you see is that there's a link there that you can immediately click that
1:37.4	devotional. So pick that up. We also have it on an audiobook format too if that is something
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