Why Did Dad Abandon Me? - An Interview with Leo Clark

Wild at Heart

Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Leo is a successful basketball coach from Texas, but growing up, he grappled with one unanswered question: "Why did my dad leave me?" His father was a famous heavyweight prizefighter but had no idea how to fight for his son's heart. Leo joins John and Allen to talk about the long road to healing—including a devastating sports injury, facing the long-lost son that he, too, abandoned, and his unexpected encounter with the Father he'd always longed for. Leo's story is featured in episode 3 of Wild at Heart: The Series.

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0:00.0	Here I am on my way to Vichy Francis club team in Vichy. You're like I made it. I made it like this is this is the beginning of this incredible basketball journey. I'm getting ready to tear it up and get more
0:13.6	validation and coming back on defense and I go to stop to take a charge and my
0:19.6	foot slips out and I'm like what's wrong with my knee I couldn't move I
0:25.5	couldn't jump had no explosiveness and and putting this brace on I'm icy I'm
0:30.4	I'm icing John and couldn't get my knee better. You think you're this
0:36.4	invincible person. There's nothing that's going to keep me out from playing and
0:41.4	here I am.
0:43.6	I cannot play a game that I love and I've received
0:46.5	so much validation from.
0:48.3	But that's the moment when God begin to get my attention.
0:53.0	Hey, welcome everybody to the Wild at Heart Podcast here in the week of October 28th.
1:01.0	John Eldridge, Alan Arnold here, and soon a special guest of ours.
1:07.0	But I just want to say, hi, everybody, and welcome to many of you who are new to us.
1:15.7	If you don't know a lot about kind of who we are
1:18.3	and what we do, we are essentially about restoration.
1:21.8	We're an organization that was formed a number of years ago just seeking
1:26.8	the healing of the human heart, seeking the restoration of men, seeking the restoration of women,
1:35.0	walking the journey together, unpacking our stories,
1:39.0	healing things like childhood trauma,
1:42.0	but also recovering dreams and calling and yeah how do you
1:47.3	live as a as a flourishing human being in a crazy world like this one.
1:53.2	Right.
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