{"id":302077,"date":"2010-07-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/extending-hospitality\/"},"modified":"2010-07-15T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T15:00:00","slug":"extending-hospitality","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/extending-hospitality\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending Hospitality"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does your hospitality reach into the streets to those you don\u2019t know, or does it stop at your front door?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2010-07-15.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:","filesize":"23.75M","filesize_raw":"24899058","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2821],"tags":[2712,4722,4818,4159,2209],"podcast_series":[7741],"cwp_profile":[9205],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-302077","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reaching-out","tag-adoption","tag-christianity","tag-evangelism","tag-gospel","tag-parenting","podcast_series-in-a-heartbeat","cwp_profile-sean-and-leigh-anne-tuohy","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/302077\/extending-hospitality","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/302077\/extending-hospitality","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"dwHACYmRrd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/extending-hospitality\/\">Extending Hospitality<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/extending-hospitality\/embed\/#?secret=dwHACYmRrd\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Extending Hospitality&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"dwHACYmRrd\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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There are parts of that that you would think it are inaccurate.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Now, you said you were on your way to breakfast, but didn\u2019t the movie make it night time in a rainstorm?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, but it was freezing cold.\u00a0 In fact, it was spittering of snow.\u00a0 It was the day before Thanksgiving so the time was just the same but as we\u2019ve said, chronology was, day time, night time; to us, it really didn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe writer and director were one and the same, John Lee Hancock.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how many good people there are in Hollywood.\u00a0 We\u2019re not Hollywood people. There could be millions. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know there\u2019s one.\u00a0 We really repeat this a lot. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen people try to figure out how we\u2019re here talking to you, or how this whole thing happened.\u00a0 And, how long we have depends upon how detailed we get, but at the end of it, we just say, \u201cLook, if you don\u2019t believe in miracles, none of this makes any sense.\u201d\u00a0 So if we can get you to believe that miracles happen, we can get past a lot of the minutia.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That\u2019s a big word for you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I saw it on the refrigerator today.\u00a0 You must have put it up there for me to use.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJohn Lee, how he ended up with this movie, is anybody else would have turned it into a football movie or would have made it really soft.\u00a0 He\u2019s from Texas.\u00a0 His daddy was a football coach.\u00a0 He understood the athletic side of it to where it wasn\u2019t important.\u00a0 A non person would have thought the athletic side was important.\u00a0 The football was really just inconsequential and he saw it exactly for what it was.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, is that luck?\u00a0 You can call it luck.\u00a0 We don\u2019t.\u00a0 We get past all that and say, \u201cI don\u2019t know how many of those are out there, but we got the one that understood it.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, that\u2019s a powerful story of redemption.\u00a0 I feel sorry for any listener who hasn\u2019t seen <em>The Blind Side<\/em> because they\u2019re missing some of the significance of the authenticity, and Bob wanted to do this interview to find an answer to those three questions.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe just asked Leigh Anne I just want you to know that.\u00a0 I want you to take us to the moment though.\u00a0 You\u2019re driving down the road, and I want you to both to tell me, just very briefly, what did you see?\u00a0 I mean, when you\u2019re going to breakfast, it\u2019s what, is it a Saturday?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>No, it\u2019s Wednesday before Thanksgiving?\u00a0 School was out.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Wednesday before\u2026?\u00a0 Okay.\u00a0 You got your kids in the car?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>No, it was just she and I.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It was just Sean and I.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>They were still sleeping.\u00a0 You see, she\u2019s not a cook.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>OK, this is going personal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>No, I get to tell this story.\u00a0 She\u2019s not a cook, so she really believes that if we go pick it up or somebody cooked it and we take it back home and eat it, she tells the kids that that\u2019s home cooking.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, we would go, as I say, we were going to get us some home cooking.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You enjoy this a little too much.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I figured that\u2019s my last line, but I got it anyway.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Yes, you did get it in!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We\u2019re getting ready to gong you!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>So, you\u2019re driving down the road\u2026what did you see, Leigh Anne?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne: <\/strong>Well, first of all we live in a part of town that usually you do not see large black men walking down the street, and it was obvious that Michael was a fish out of water.\u00a0 I had not seen Michael at school, but I\u2019d certainly heard about him.\u00a0 Sean had talked about him and the kids had talked about him as we passed him.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSean just briefly said, \u201cOh, that\u2019s the young man that I was telling you about at Briarcrest.\u201d\u00a0 And I said, \u201cWhat in the world is he doing here at this time of day?!\u201d\u00a0 Sean said, \u201cI have no idea.\u201d\u00a0 I thought, \u201cWell that is really odd,\u201d so I said, \u201cTurn around!\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cTurn the car around and see what he\u2019s doing over here!\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd Sean kind of did a <em>Dukes of Hazzard<\/em> slide and I was pretty impressed\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>She didn\u2019t say it that nicely, so I reacted pretty good on that one.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Turn it around?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2026right now.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Now?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>She didn\u2019t have to say it, but she meant it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Okay.\u00a0 So?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, Sean asked him, \u201cHey, Mike, Coach Tuohy from Briarcrest.\u201d\u00a0 He kind of just nodded and didn\u2019t say too many words, and Sean said, \u201cWhat are you doing over here?\u201d\u00a0 And he said, \u201cI\u2019m going over to the gym and shoot some ball.\u201d\u00a0 And Sean said, \u201cWell, son, the gym isn\u2019t open today.\u00a0 It\u2019s closed.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFrom Sean\u2019s upbringing and from Sean being in the athletic world he reads kids very, very well. I think he knew immediately that the young man was going there to fill a need.\u00a0 At that exact moment, we didn\u2019t know what it was.\u00a0 We had no idea the depths of Michael\u2019s needs but it was apparent that it was a rather chilly day and he had on shorts and a T-shirt and was ill-dressed for the weather, and early in the morning, shouldn\u2019t have been there.\u00a0 It just didn\u2019t add up.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd so Sean deducted in his mind that he was probably going just for shelter, heat, whatever the reason was, and he said, \u201cWhy don\u2019t we drop you back off at home since the school\u2019s not open?\u201d\u00a0 And that mighty extremely uncomfortable, and he said, \u201cLet us take you back up to the bus stop.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd at that time, Michael rode an express bus from downtown to East Memphis, which we didn\u2019t know any of that at that moment, and he said, \u201cThere\u2019s not another bus coming along.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd Sean said, \u201cWell, let us take you to someplace.\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMichael knew that he wasn\u2019t going to get rid of us that easily, got in the car, and we didn\u2019t take him home with us at that exact moment, but we drove him back to Poplar and Highland.\u00a0 He got on the express bus that took him back downtown.\u00a0 So that was our first encounter and it just set off all kind of alarm signals in my head that, \u201cOkay, there are issues here that need to be addressed.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s a long way, though, from alarm signals in your head to let\u2019s have him come stay at the house.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Not with her!\u00a0 (laughter)\u00a0 It\u2019s a short gap.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt is.\u00a0 It is!\u00a0 And I\u2019m not kidding, either!\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t have a lot of time to waste and so when she met up with Michael again A to Z was taken care of pretty quickly.\u00a0 So that\u2019s an accurate statement with most people, but not with her.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Would you say, Sean, that Michael felt like he was taking a risk as well?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You got to believe he was.\u00a0 Now, again, we get a lot of the credit for giving.\u00a0 He had, probably, the harder side.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it was a risk for him, if it was uncomfortable for him, whatever it was, but he was the most open receiver that you could ever have.\u00a0 It benefitted him early because he got through all the bologna, but it had benefitted him later because he never took a backward step.\u00a0 He never challenged us on things that we thought were right, and some of them I wouldn\u2019t have done.\u00a0 But he was so good at it and he was so receiving that he accomplished so much because of it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>James Chapter 1, verse 27, commands us to visit the orphan and the widow in their distress.\u00a0 Many times we stop there and don\u2019t finish the rest of that passage, because it commands us to keep oneself unstained form the world.\u00a0 You don\u2019t know this about us, but Barbara and I have six children, one of ours is adopted.\u00a0 We like to say we don\u2019t know which one.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(chuckles)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we mistakenly, when we adopted our little girl, thought we were doing her a favor and helping her grow up, and, honestly, what Barbara and I say is by doing that step of faith in our lives, we found that God had a ton of work to do in our lives, and that the lessons we learned through that adoption have been heaven-sent.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI can\u2019t even begin to explain the love of God like I know it today, and we don\u2019t have time today to talk about my story; we\u2019re here to talk about your story, but I know that you all believe the same thing.\u00a0 You adopted this young man thinking you were doing him a favor in a way, but you discovered an enormous amount of blessing in the process.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh, Michael blessed us a million times more than we ever blessed him.\u00a0 I mean, just the fact that you took this young man into your home and it made the whole family closer.\u00a0 We did things together that I don\u2019t know if we have ever done before.\u00a0 We enjoyed\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Such as?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>\u2026such as we ate at the table almost every single night.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We hadn\u2019t done that since he left.\u00a0 Oh it killed me when he graduated and went to college, and, oh gosh, we no longer\u2026we sat at the dinner table <em>every night<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And the reason was he\u2019d never seen a dinner table?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>No, that\u2019s where he was studying!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That was kind of where\u2026that was like the center point of the bull\u2019s eye.\u00a0 Everything happened around the dinner table.\u00a0 We were on a schedule and we all just sat down and rehashed the day.\u00a0 We would start at dinner, and\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Did you bring home a sack of cheesy gordita crunches and then\u2026?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We brought home something.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That super volcano taco?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, that would\u2019ve been one of them!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>That would\u2019ve worked!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>\u00a0You said you didn\u2019t become a coach because you\u2019re dad set such a high standard, and you weren\u2019t sure you could achieve it.\u00a0 This became kind of your coaching, your team, at that point?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It was\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Team Oher.\u00a0 We had Team Oher.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We did have Team Oher.\u00a0 What\u2019s amazing, though-our daughter\u2019s the same age as Michael.\u00a0 They\u2019re both 23 and when she was 21 she did an interview on television.\u00a0 I was watching it and she said that.\u00a0 She said, \u201cHe became the center focus and we rallied around him.\u201d\u00a0 I hadn\u2019t even thought about that.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen I think back of all the times we\u2019ve sat at the table and then their friends would come sit.\u00a0 Michael was being tutored and all of a sudden Michael\u2019s grades were better than anyone else\u2019s.\u00a0 Well, they\u2019re not stupid.\u00a0 They go, \u201cWell, we\u2019re going to on in this, too!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCollins went to heck with, so <em>she <\/em>sat at the table, and then her friends, then Michael\u2019s friends!\u00a0 We\u2019d have 20, 25 people.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I knew when it was a big biology or geometry test.\u00a0 I\u2019d turn the corner of the house and the cars would be lined up and I was, \u201cOh, they must have a big test tomorrow.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(chuckles)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tEverybody would pile in to study, all the kids would, and it was\u2026it was just a great center of activity.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It was the best time we\u2019ve ever had.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I have to ask you this question.\u00a0 Bob just does not like me asking this question, because he\u2019s very sequential\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You\u2019ll see why, it\u2019s just a bad question\u2026\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>It\u2019s a terrible question, but I got to ask you.\u00a0 If you could only keep one image, one snapshot of one moment in your family, what snapshot would you keep and why?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>See, isn\u2019t that just an impossible question?\u00a0 How do you even answer that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Because you have to review all.\u00a0 You have to go through your whole family scrapbooks, so\u2026but I want to ask you anyway, because you\u2019ve given us some pictures here that are really memorable.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>I think the snapshot would probably be graduation because Michael was the first person to ever graduate in his family and Collins and he were in the same graduating class.\u00a0 She gave up a lot.\u00a0 She was in all these AP courses her senior year and I kind of panicked at the last minute that I was not going to know exactly what goes on in his classes, and so she dropped down to regular classes to be in his class, which was helpful.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey are and were extremely close to each other.\u00a0 They\u2019re almost, you know, left brain\/right brain.\u00a0 It was kind of scary.\u00a0 That day was just a great day for me because he had worked so hard to get there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Was it emotional for you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Oh, extremely, but I\u2019m emotional.\u00a0\u00a0 I cry every time they announce him from the starting lineup at the Ravens.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s so embarrassing.\u00a0 It\u2019s so embarrassing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong>\u00a0 When he comes through that smoke my little section 203\u2014God bless their heart\u2014they all just pat me, because every time he runs through the smoke, I\u2019m like\u2026it just took so much for that kid to get there, and he is the starting left tackle for the Baltimore Ravens.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd he should have been dead on the streets of Memphis, Tennessee because he was tapped for a gang leader, and for him to be on that football field, going to talk to kids about his predicament growing up, making millions of dollars a year.\u00a0 I mean, you just can\u2019t make up a story like that!\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s like Sean says, \u201cChildbirth is easier to explain than how Michael Oher is the starting left tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, and thinks that I birthed him and takes great offense to people that question the fact that I did or didn\u2019t.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<br>And so, to get to this point, I cry every time, you know, something like that happens because it\u2019s just\u2026it\u2019s a miracle.\u00a0 We have a big sign in our carport that when you drive in it says, \u201cIt\u2019s a miracle.\u201d\u00a0 Because that\u2019s the only way to explain.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Sean?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>My brother got married for the first time at 50 and we drove to New Orleans, which my wife believes if it\u2019s further than two hours, she\u2019s flying on something.\u00a0 This was a big deal.\u00a0 In fact, I rented a minivan because there were the five of us and we needed some size.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn the movie Sean Jr\u2019s a little bitty kid.\u00a0 He\u2019s six foot, 185 pounds.\u00a0 He\u2019s a big kid.\u00a0 I turned around and in the back of the van was Sean Jr. and Michael, I mean, elbow to elbow, with headphones on, looking at a little TV playing some video game, and they were elbowing each other.\u00a0 Collins was sitting there, she had headphones on watching something on television and I went and said, \u201cThis will be the last time we\u2019ll be this close together,\u201d and it has been.\u00a0 And it wasn\u2019t the most enjoyable vacation, but it was the most fun.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo see those two big kids with earphones on playing video games in a car and as happy as can be\u2026I don\u2019t know if you\u2019d get in a car right now and drive with us to New Orleans because I don\u2019t know if I would either!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t(laughter)\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut he did at that day, and all the kids did it, and everybody was happy, so that\u2019s my picture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>You know what you guys did and the challenge you gave us earlier in the broadcast of looking out for the person who\u2019s in front of you in line and behind you in line is a great image.\u00a0 Right now, across the country there are 500,000 kids who are in the foster care system and over 150,000 are adoptable.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOne of the reasons I keep doing what I do here on this broadcast is because I know there are people listening, and there are folks whose stories won\u2019t ever be in a movie like yours, but are every bit as heroic, doing some very good things, and are stepping in the lives of these young people, and making a huge difference.\u00a0\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just want to ask the listeners, are you one of them?\u00a0 We need to empty the foster care system of every child who either needs to be adopted or needs a home to go to and the Christian community needs to do it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, listen to this statistic my wife has about the churches in America.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>If every church in America would be responsible for one child placing them, it would basically wipe out the adoption and foster care needs in this country.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>One.\u00a0 One kid.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Leigh Anne:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Come one!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Sean:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>We talk about great things that you can do.\u00a0 That\u2019s not necessary.\u00a0 Just do the little things, but do them greatly.\u00a0 I was at an event, and she said that, and you can get that visual.\u00a0 You can drive down the street and there\u2019s a church.\u00a0 Well, if they\u2019re doing their part, so you\u2019re right.\u00a0 It\u2019s an achievable goal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis:<\/strong>\u00a0 There\u2019s no other institution in America that has the capacity, and the people, and the volunteer force the church has, and there may be some listening who need to take a step toward the foster care system.\u00a0 Others may need to take a step towards starting an orphan ministry in their church.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, and there are a lot of people who here you say that and go, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t know where to start with either one of those.\u201d\u00a0 At FamilyLife, as you\u2019ve mentioned, we have an area of our ministry called Hope for Orphans, and one of the goals for Hope for Orphans is to help individuals and churches know how to equip people for adoption, for foster care, for starting an orphan ministry.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe\u2019ve got resources designed to help people know how to engage, and it kind of spells it out very simply for you.\u00a0 You can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com.\u00a0 There\u2019s a link to the Hope for Orphans area there, and it\u2019ll give you all kinds of ideas about how you can engage and it may not be as you\u2019ve said, bringing home a teenager and adopting him or her as a son or a daughter.\u00a0 It may be that your church gets involved in helping with an orphanage in the former Soviet Union or Asia or Africa or Central America, South America.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are all kinds of things that individuals and churches can be doing.\u00a0 So, again, go to FamilyLifeToday.com and click on the link to the Hope for Orphans part of the website, and look on what\u2019s available there.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me also mention\u2026Sean and Leigh Anne have just written a book.\u00a0 It\u2019s called <em>In a Heartbeat:<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em><em>Sharing the Power of Cheerful Giving<\/em> and we are making that book available this month to listeners who can support the ministry of <em>FamilyLifeToday<\/em> with a donation of any amount.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMany of you have been very generous with this ministry in the past, and we appreciate your cheerful giving to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 This month, if you\u2019re able to help with a donation of any amount, we want you to feel free to request, as a thank you gift, the new book by Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy called <em>\u00a0<\/em><em>In a Heartbeat.<\/em><em>\u00a0 <\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re making your donation online at FamilyLifeToday.com, when you come to the key code box on your online donation form, just type the word \u2018HEARTBEAT\u2019 into the box so that we\u2019ll know that you\u2019d like a copy of the book sent out to you.\u00a0 Or call 1-800-FL-TODAY.\u00a0 You can make a donation over the phone and just ask for a copy of Sean and Leigh Anne\u2019s book, <em>In a Heartbeat<\/em>.\u00a0 And, again, we\u2019ll send it out to you.\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd let me just say, we do appreciate your support of this ministry, and we hope that in giving to <em>FamilyLife Today,<\/em> you\u2019re not taking away from giving to your local church, that needs to be your first priority when it comes to giving, and with that in mind, again, we do appreciate those of you who go the extra mile and help support the ministry of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\u00a0 Thanks for your partnership with us, and we trust Sean and Leigh Anne\u2019s book will be an encouragement to you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd we hope you\u2019ll be back with us tomorrow when we\u2019re going to continue our conversation with Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy and ask them a little bit about their philosophy when it comes to the subject of 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