Hey y'all, welcome back to the God Center Mom Podcast.

With me, Heather McFadden, you're listening to Part 1 of Episode 182, where I'm chatting

with Terry Conlin.

She's the mom to four grown children, one of whom is 23 and was diagnosed as being on

the autistic spectrum.

She's here to provide some wisdom, perspective, experience, and hope.

If you're a mom who's walking a similar road with your child, and for you friends of moms

out there, the ones that you know, you know your friends struggling, but you don't know

quite how to help.

I hope this episode will give you a little insight into the struggle she's having, the hard

places, and the ways that you can be a support to her at this time.

You made the stars, you made the lightning, and you made my child every little toe and

every little fingernail and every little eyelash, so you have to know what's going on

here.

Even when we don't know, even when we can't change it, maybe.

But I needed that desperately, not like I need every Sunday.

I need to wake up every day and be able to face the day.

I used to maybe irreverently so kind of joke that maybe God had looked away, not just

in the making of Mac, but also in giving us our youngest daughter 15 months later.

So by the time we were figuring out Mac's diagnosis, I had a newborn and two older ones,

but God knows all of that.

And while that doesn't change what your day looks like, it helped me come at it knowing

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