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I'm John Fuller along with Danny Werta and I don't know if this has happened to you Danny.

I mean you have the added burden and privilege of being a counselor, but you know I get to work on the radio here at Focus and sometimes I meet people who think I should have

perfect kids or they assume I have perfect kids. I don't. They've made their share of

mistakes. Do you ever have anybody say well yeah but you've got it all figured out because you work at focus and you're a counselor?

Well on top of that vice president of parenting.

Yeah. The title of that then I'm supposed to have every answer in the world. The reality is we are all

under construction. All of us are pastors. I know we lift up pastors to places they don't need to be.

Mega Church pastors pastors Jim Daly, Jim Dobson, everybody has

been there that has worked in the ministry. You get placed somewhere where you

don't belong.

We're all under construction, as long as we live here on Earth.

And that's the beauty of it.

Let's have grace with one another and realize that our own kids have difficulties and faults with their own.

My son has made it to the office before at school.

My daughter has, we went to the parent teacher conference and the teacher said teacher said yeah your daughter talks a lot

and she was disrespectful to me and that's that's my daughter and that's not on me but

it takes me entering that place with my daughter to understand her better and the journey she's on as she's learning about life and how to treat other people.

And that's fantastic. We're into under construction that's the exciting part of life

yeah I I don't want to go into too much detail but I did have a child get kicked out

of kindergarten if that brings anybody any comfort so I often joke my ministry is to help you feel better about your

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