{"id":303269,"date":"2014-11-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/i-am-the-mother-this-child-needs\/"},"modified":"2014-11-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T17:00:00","slug":"i-am-the-mother-this-child-needs","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/i-am-the-mother-this-child-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am the Mother This Child Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motherhood can be overwhelming. 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I said, \u201cIs there any reason you could be pregnant?\u201d And she looked at me and nodded \u201cYes,\u201d\u2014she\u2019s pregnant. I\u2019m blown away by this. It felt like, to me, that I had come from a broken family; and I had given all of my life to creating this perfectly intact second family\u2014we\u2019d spent time with Jesus \/ we did it right!\u2014and it felt, to me, like my second family fell and broke again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, November 18<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. What do you do, as a parent, when things start going in a very different direction than you had hoped and prayed things would go? We\u2019ll talk about that today. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. Recently, I got a number of files handed to me that were profiles of different couples\u2014just some of their background\/their information. I opened up the folders. I was looking through it, and the first thing you saw was the family picture. I thought, \u201cThese are some great-looking families,\u201d as I looked at the picture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Sure; sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And then I would look at some of the stories behind the pictures. When I saw the stories behind the pictures, I thought, \u201cThat picture doesn\u2019t really capture that story,\u201d because here was one great-looking family\u2014and well, there was adultery that had been a part of their story; and there was drug abuse that had been a part of their story. I thought, \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t know that from the picture\u201d; would you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes, Bob. What you\u2019re touching on is what we\u2019re all guilty of\u2014we\u2019re guilty of judging based on what we see. I had a young couple this past weekend walk up to me. They said: \u201cWe want to thank you for your ministry. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe just went to the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em> marriage getaway,\u201d\u2014and they named the city\u2014\u201cand we hadn\u2019t been away from the kids since we started having them a dozen years ago.\u201d They had three, and they started unpacking a similar situation\u2014not adultery\u2014but their marriage was on a downhill slide. On Friday night, at the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway, they were thinking about leaving. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJust looking at this couple, you would think, \u201cThey\u2019ve got it together<em>.\u201d<\/em> They were dressed handsomely \/ they were doing well in their business\u2014yet, here they are confessing that he almost left the <em>Weekend to Remember <\/em>on Friday night because they had an argument \/ a disagreement, and he wanted out of there. His leaving would not just have been the <em>Weekend to Remember. <\/em>I think it was symbolic of maybe leaving the marriage. That weekend, they got the training\u2014they got the help \/ they got the hope\u2014that they needed, biblically and spiritually. They said, \u201cWe feel like we have a whole new direction in our lives.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>3:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just want to say, here at the beginning of the broadcast before I introduce our guest, I just want to say, \u201cThanks,\u201d to the folks who support this ministry financially, because you\u2019re helping us bring hope to literally thousands of couples like that at our conferences\u2014I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an overstatement to say hundreds of thousands, if not millions, here on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>\u2014through <em>your<\/em> financial support and all that you\u2019re doing. You\u2019re also helping support the broadcast today, which is going to be really good because Elisa Morgan joins us again on the broadcast. Elisa, welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Thanks for having me back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>She has written a book called <em>The Beauty of Broken<\/em>\u2014how all of us kind of put on the air of perfection\u2014but the subtitle is: <em>There is No Such Thing as a Perfect Family: My Story and Likely Yours Too.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>We\u2019ve already heard from you this week about your family of origin. Your mom and dad divorced when you were five years old. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYour dad really was done with you guys \/ your mom was an alcoholic. You grew up with a sister and a brother in a home where you were trying to hold everything together and owning that responsibility. I\u2019m curious about this\u2014you came to faith when you were 16 years old in the midst of all of this. How did you hear the gospel; and what did that do, if anything, to what you were dealing with in life?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Actually, I loved Jesus. I loved God, as a young child. Our mom would take my older sister and me to church\u2014the local Presbyterian church\u2014and drop us off on Sunday morning. I think she got a few hours to herself. We didn\u2019t know what to do\u2014so we joined the adult choir. It was kind of cute. We had these long stoles hanging off\u2014it was just great. Think Charley Brown\u2014that was us. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI knew about God, and I loved Him; but I didn\u2019t really know what that meant. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, when I was still in a church as a teen\u2014but then began to hear more about Jesus through the ministry of YoungLife\u2014I discovered what we would call the gospel\u2014the good news that God, not only loves us, but He went so far as to give His Son on a cross to pay the penalty for all of our sins. I just grabbed on to that for dear life. I think it gave me a couple of things\u2014it gave me reassurance that I was not alone and that I was not doing life alone. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I think also, in becoming a Christian and starting this relationship with God, I think I began to develop an understanding of a mythology that: \u201cIf I give my life to God, and I\u2019m obedient according to His Word, then He\u2019s going to bless me! He\u2019s going to give me the goods!\u201d More than anything, I wanted to create a perfectly intact second family. I\u2019d look at my friends\u2014and they had moms with beehives, and pearls, and June Cleaver dresses, and they ate exactly at six o\u2019clock every night\u2014it was predictable \/ it was apparently loving\u2014looked great on the outside. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI wanted that!\u2014I wanted predictability, and safety, and security\u2014and I wanted to give that to children myself. So, I think there\u2019s a kind of double-edged sword there. My faith sustained me, and gave me a calling, and gave me a purpose and a reassurance; but I think I also assigned to it some impossible expectations.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think a lot of people think that faith in Jesus is the pill you take that cures all of the bad in your past. There\u2019s a sense in which that\u2019s true, but the dysfunction of our lives isn\u2019t immediately erased. The transformation of our lives is on ongoing process; isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Yes. We don\u2019t understand\u2014I think we understand salvation. It means you\u2019re going to go to heaven \/ it means you have a relation with Jesus. But we don\u2019t understand sanctification, which is the process\u2014and by the way, it\u2019s a process\u2014of being conformed and shaped into Him. In Elisa-everyday-talk, I would just say: \u201cBasically, we\u2019re not done. If we were done, we\u2019d be dead.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is an ongoing life process. I didn\u2019t understand that until I was much older\u2014that everything we go through in life really does belong\u2014that this stuff does fit together \/ that God doesn\u2019t break us, but He does allow us to break. The first family was a broken family; and every other family ever since breaks in some way, shape, or form because we\u2019re broken people that God died to fix. He will do that, but not necessarily by Thursday at 7:00 p.m.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>As you, a young person, grew up in your family\u2014you were 16, you said, when you came to faith in Christ\u2014how did that impact your relationship with your dad, your mom, your stepmom, your sister, your brother? I mean, did it change anything? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>My sister, and brother, and I all came to faith in a season of about three to five years. My mom, I think, was a little threatened by it\u2014just confused. She had become a Christian, as a young girl, in a Baptist church at 12\u2014and went forward and was baptized\u2014but her life, then, went away from God \/ the church\u2014any expression of religion. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think she was confused and thought maybe I was a little eccentric in my faith.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy dad thought I was a wacko. Truly, I remember, at one point, when a six-year relationship I had had with my boyfriend ended. I really had to clarify God\u2019s call on my life and \u201cWhat now?\u201d I was just out of college. I felt God asking me to go to seminary and to formalize my education around being full-time in a vocation for Him. My dad thought I was going to become a nun\u2014and freaked out and called me and said: \u201cThere are other men out there, Elisa. You don\u2019t have to give up on them.\u201d He didn\u2019t understand that. It was a dear moment, actually, that he showed concern.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It was actually in seminary that the new perfect family that you were going to form had its genesis; right? [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>I got the perfect guy. I will say that\u2014perfect guy for me. Yes, I met\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Love at first sight.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>It was. I met and married Evan Morgan within\u2014I think it was about seven or eight months\u2014we met and were married.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>With this ambition in your heart that: \u201cThis is going to be what I didn\u2019t have, growing up. Here\u2019s my chance to get it done right.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Right. Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>When did it first start to dawn on you that maybe there were going to be challenges in this new godly two seminary students getting married to one another, with the ambition of a perfect family?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>We knew, immediately, that we weren\u2019t going to be able to have children, biologically, because Evan had incurred and survived cancer. So, we knew we would be adopting children. I think that we went into that very innocently and naively\u2014thinking that was going to be awesome and we\u2019d be saving children as well as saving the world together. While it has been a total fulfillment to adopt children, it has not come without challenges.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, the very first thing I would say is\u2014we waited <em>forever<\/em> to have these children \/ to adopt these children. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey just were infants when we got them; but I think the first, Eva, our daughter, was four-and-a-half years in a wait.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Four-and-a-half years from initiating the adoption process until you brought Eva home?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And how long had you been married before you began initiating the adoption process?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Three-and-a-half seconds. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So, you started in on kids pretty quick.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>We did. Well, we did because we knew it was going to be a long wait\u2014we didn\u2019t expect it to be that long. As we waited, we both served in full-time ministry\u2014I as a Dean of Women at a college and Evan in administration at the seminary. We were very full in ministry, in church, in friends, growing, and then came, finally, children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I have to stop you, at this point, and say it\u2019s not a forgone conclusion, with a lot of couples who can\u2019t have children, that they\u2019ll adopt. How did God put on your hearts to confirm He wanted you to do something that really is noble? It really is selfless \/ it\u2019s self-sacrificing\u2014but it\u2019s go give a child who doesn\u2019t have a family \/ a home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>It wasn\u2019t noble for us. I\u2019m going to be just really clear. We wanted to have children, and that\u2019s the only way we could have them. Evan knew it, immediately after his surgery, that he\u2019d be unable to have children. He felt God calling him then to raise a child that wasn\u2019t his own. I knew, as Evan and I fell in love, that that would be my journey toward motherhood. The process of being a woman who doesn\u2019t bear children is <em>huge<\/em>, and mine was voluntarily. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs a nearly 60-year-old woman, I have to tell you there are very painful times when I still grieve that\u2014that reality that I haven\u2019t borne children\u2014but I do think that, for me, and I\u2019m just being blunt honest\u2014is that I didn\u2019t do it nobly. I didn\u2019t do it because a daughter, out there, needed me. I did it because I needed a daughter \/ I did it because I needed a son. I hadn\u2019t really understood that until later in the process; but, for me, it was kind of a selfish decision.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Did you guys become instant parents? Was it one of these you get a phone call one day and, all of a sudden, you\u2019re a parent?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Yes. After the four-and-a-half years\u2014yes, we got a phone call on a Saturday of Easter weekend that we would be getting our daughter on Monday morning. I remember standing in church on Easter Sunday singing, \u201cChrist the Lord is risen today\u2026\u201d with tears streaming down our face. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat next day, we were in the adoption agency, walking through. There was this little bundle of pink, lying on a hard kind of banquet folding table. I\u2019m looking at the woman standing above her, going, \u201cShe\u2019s crying. Pick her up!\u201d In my heart, came this, \u201cWell, you\u2019re the mother<em>.\u201d <\/em>I knew I was that baby\u2019s mother, and I went over and picked up my daughter and bonded on the spot.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I want to ask you to fast forward. I want to get more of the story here in a minute\u2014but just looking at that moment, when you picked that baby up\u2014what was the most important lesson you were about to learn?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>It would take me several years to really hear this, but that \u201cI am the mother this child needs.\u201d God began to speak that to me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen she was about three years old\u2014I remember, truly, one night putting her to bed. Then she called me down the hall to come back, and I did. I had nothing left. I was like, \u201cSeriously?\u201d I was so close to getting to watch <em>ER<\/em> and George Clooney, and I was just done! I go back in the room. I am on empty, and it wasn\u2019t a pretty moment\u2014Monster Mom emerges. I got through the moment, but I went back to my bed. I didn\u2019t feel like I deserved Mommy Time any more.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI found myself praying Hannah\u2019s prayer from I Samuel, Chapter 3: \u201cFor this child I prayed, and now I give her over to the Lord <em>all the days of her life because You\u2019re going to be a better parent than I am, God<\/em>.\u201d It was like God just pushed at me there and said, \u201cElisa, do you really trust Me with her?\u201d and I\u2019m like, \u201cSure, You\u2019re God.\u201d It was like \u201cWell, do you trust Me to decide if she should get married or not or see her through a life-threatening illness?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe pushed me; and He goes, \u201cIf you trust Me with her truly, then do you trust Me to pick for her the very best mother for who I know she will become?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have gone back to that moment for 30 years now and said, \u201cYes, I trust You.\u201d So, <em>everything <\/em>that she goes through\u2014that I go through \/ that we go through\u2014I go back to that moment, trusting: \u201cDo I trust God that He picked me to be her mother?\u201d And I do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This issue of releasing your kids is one of the things that you talk about in the book. You describe it as a core family value that moms and dads have to have the illusion of control pried from their fingers. They have to surrender to God\u2019s plan for their child\u2019s life; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Relinquishment is the word I think I use, which does mean to let go. It doesn\u2019t mean to stop caring, and it doesn\u2019t mean to be uninvolved. It doesn\u2019t mean to take a hike because there\u2019s no off-ramp in parenting. But it does mean a letting go\u2014you are called to relinquish them to Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That commitment you made to God, when she was three years old, is one thing; but you say, 27 years later, you look back on it. That was a watershed moment. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn your book, you talk about several additional times when that commitment was put to a severe test. Which test do you think was the most difficult?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>When she was a teenager, I had a dream. I was walking through a home. In this home\u2014it was under construction\u2014and Jesus was my tour guide in this dream. He led me through different rooms, and He stopped at a bedroom. He said, \u201cThis bedroom is for your daughter\u201d; and then He went to the one right next door to it. He said, \u201cAnd this bedroom is for the baby.\u201d I went \u201cWhat?\u201d and I woke up. The next night, truly, I had the same dream repeated\u2014home under construction\u2014Jesus is the tour guide, \u201cThis room is for your daughter; this room is for the baby.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd I remember saying, \u201cShe\u2019s not pregnant.\u201d He looked at me and said, \u201cYes, she is.\u201d I truly shook this off. Just a few days\u2014maybe weeks later\u2014I was at MOPS, where I served as the CEO in those days. We were sitting around at a conference table, talking about the formation of teen MOPS\u2014for moms who were teenagers themselves. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI felt God whisper to me, \u201cYou\u2019re going to know more about this than anyone in this room.\u201d I thought, \u201cOh, my gosh\u2014I better talk to my daughter.\u201d I went home. I asked my beautiful varsity-swimming medalist\u2014back from a missions trip in Kenya, serving HIV orphans \/ just back from that\u2014I stopped her in the hall. I said, \u201cIs there any reason you could be pregnant?\u201d She looked at me and nodded. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2014never-before-pregnant me\u2014I get in my car, and go to the grocery store, and get an at-home pregnancy test, and I bring it home. Yes, she is pregnant; and I\u2019m blown away by this. It felt like, to me, that I had come from a broken family, and I had given all of my life to creating this perfectly intact second family\u2014we had spent time with Jesus \/ we did it right!\u2014and it felt, to me, like my second family fell and broke again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And the lessons of love, forgiveness, compassion of a mom who had chosen this little girl really came to bear in a big time way; didn\u2019t they?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Such a long journey and a beautiful one, where God began to reveal in ways that I couldn\u2019t translate at first the beauty in broken. My daughter went through this process of this pregnancy and ended up having a baby way early through an abruptio placenta\u2014made the very painful decision, but important decision, to relinquish this baby\u2014and then continued with her life but veered off into some other surprising choices. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDuring this time, my son\u2014a few years younger than his sister\u2014began to lose his way as well\u2014him into addiction, and into legal issues, and truancy. We wondered, \u201cWas it because he was watching his own intrauterine development play out before his eyes because he also came from a teen mom, just about his sister\u2019s age, who carried and then relinquished him?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe wondered, \u201cIs that what\u2019s happening, or is it all just my fault?\u201d\u2014which is where, of course, I went. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd the story goes on in our family\u2014of my daughter with another pregnancy, and an accident that changed her life in dramatic ways, and an abusive relationship. We go on and on here, and this is not a tied-up-in-a-bow story. This is a real life\u2014like everybody listening\u2014story of people who want to cling to God and do\u2014and sometimes bump along behind Him, trying to find our way\u2014and find ourselves broken, and in need of healing, and discovering a God who gets that abnormal is very normal, and that His people are wayward people, but they\u2019re never beyond His reach for redemption and healing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You had a pastor or a seminary friend who shared with you that our kids\u2014there are really three factors that determine who they become; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>It\u2019s really rich. Yes, this was a wise learned man, who has since gone to be with Jesus; but he talked about heredity, which you really can\u2019t control\u2014and he talked about environment, which we can control to some extent\u2014but the surprising element that shapes kids, as well, is free will. We can\u2019t control it at all\u2014each of us gets to make our own choices. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGod began to show me that I am responsible to mother my children as best I can, but I\u2019m not responsible for <em>their<\/em> choices and their responses. I\u2019ve had to relinquish that understanding as well. I can throw myself over a pothole. I can say, \u201cDon\u2019t go near that pothole,\u201d and put my body on top of it. They may pick me up, and throw me out of the way, and dive down by their own choices. In those moments, I need to relinquish responsibility of their choices.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>What you\u2019re illustrating here, Elisa, is really what I think James, Chapter 1, commands us to do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe says, \u201cThis is pure and undefiled religion\u201d\u2014basically, to go near the widow and the orphan in their distress. When you go near the orphan, you go near the heart of God. And in the process of going near the orphan, you find Life Himself, even in the midst of some of the drama that you live out because you chose to adopt. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFamilyLife is an advocate. I am bullish on the orphan\u2014on foster care \/ on adoption\u2014because I think it\u2019s upon the heart of God. It\u2019s why He adopted us\u2014it\u2019s at the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ. If He hadn\u2019t adopted us, we\u2019d be lost. We\u2019d be without an identity \/ without a family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know it\u2019s been hard\u2014I read your book\u2014but I thank you for living out and modeling the love of Christ with your daughter and with your son through some very treacherous, turbulent days\u2014but for exhibiting the love of Christ in the midst of that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think that\u2019s a message more and more of the church today, and followers of Jesus Christ, need to hear and see.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes, and I think for those who will read your book, they will get some insight and some wisdom that comes from having traveled down a hard road as you guys have done, relying on the grace of God in every step along that journey. We have copies of that book, <em>The Beauty of Broken<\/em> by Elisa Morgan in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can go, online, to FamilyLifeToday.com. There is a link in the upper left- hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d If you click that link, it will take you right to the spot where you can order a copy of <em>The Beauty of Broken<\/em> by Elisa Morgan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr if you prefer to order by phone, the toll-free number is 1-800-FL-TODAY. So, again, the website: FamilyLifeToday.com \/ the toll-free number: 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was reflecting with some friends recently about the fact that all of us in the journey of life are going to experience these kinds of detours, like you\u2019ve talked about here today, Elisa, where you wind up on a very different stretch of highway than the one you had thought you were going to be on when you started your journey. That\u2019s the reality of the path that God has us on. He sometimes assigns us to a different road than the one we thought we were going to be on. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe question is less about what highway you\u2019re going to be on\u2014the question is: \u201cAre you headed the right direction, and are you aware of the fact that God is with you? Is He your sustaining grace, however rocky the road might be?\u201d Here, at FamilyLife, we want to be providing ongoing help and encouragement so that, when things are smooth, you\u2019re in good shape; but, when things take a turn, you are able to rely on God\u2019s grace to help you through the hard times. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe appreciate those of you who share that vision with us\u2014to see every home become a godly home. We appreciate your support of this ministry that helps to make all of that happen. Right now, if you can help with a donation, we\u2019d love to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d by sending you a resource that Barbara Rainey has designed. She calls it \u201cUntie Your Story.\u201d It\u2019s a spool of napkin wraps. Each wrap has a question on it so that, after a meal is over, you can read your questions to one another and share your answers\u2014and have a little more substantive conversation than you might otherwise have around the dinner table.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s our thank-you gift to you when you support the ministry today. You can do that by going online at FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper right-hand corner that says, \u201cI Care,\u201d to make an online donation; or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make a donation over the phone. Of course, you can mail your donation to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> at PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur zip code is 72223. Again, ask for the \u201cUntie Your Story\u201d resource when you get in touch with us to make a donation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we want to talk about the impact that parenting challenges can have on a marriage relationship. What do you do in the middle of a stretch of bumpy road to try to make sure your marriage is staying solid? Elisa Morgan will help us with that tomorrow. I hope you can tune in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. 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It felt like, to me, that I had come from a broken family; and I had given all of my life to creating this perfectly intact second family\u2014we\u2019d spent time with Jesus \/ we did it right!\u2014and it felt, to me, like my second family fell and broke again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, November 18<sup>th<\/sup>. Our host is the President of FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. What do you do, as a parent, when things start going in a very different direction than you had hoped and prayed things would go? We\u2019ll talk about that today. Stay tuned.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>1:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. Recently, I got a number of files handed to me that were profiles of different couples\u2014just some of their background\/their information. I opened up the folders. I was looking through it, and the first thing you saw was the family picture. I thought, \u201cThese are some great-looking families,\u201d as I looked at the picture.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Sure; sure.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And then I would look at some of the stories behind the pictures. When I saw the stories behind the pictures, I thought, \u201cThat picture doesn\u2019t really capture that story,\u201d because here was one great-looking family\u2014and well, there was adultery that had been a part of their story; and there was drug abuse that had been a part of their story. I thought, \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t know that from the picture\u201d; would you?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>Yes, Bob. What you\u2019re touching on is what we\u2019re all guilty of\u2014we\u2019re guilty of judging based on what we see. I had a young couple this past weekend walk up to me. They said: \u201cWe want to thank you for your ministry. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>2:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe just went to the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em> marriage getaway,\u201d\u2014and they named the city\u2014\u201cand we hadn\u2019t been away from the kids since we started having them a dozen years ago.\u201d They had three, and they started unpacking a similar situation\u2014not adultery\u2014but their marriage was on a downhill slide. On Friday night, at the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway, they were thinking about leaving. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tJust looking at this couple, you would think, \u201cThey\u2019ve got it together<em>.\u201d<\/em> They were dressed handsomely \/ they were doing well in their business\u2014yet, here they are confessing that he almost left the <em>Weekend to Remember <\/em>on Friday night because they had an argument \/ a disagreement, and he wanted out of there. His leaving would not just have been the <em>Weekend to Remember. <\/em>I think it was symbolic of maybe leaving the marriage. That weekend, they got the training\u2014they got the help \/ they got the hope\u2014that they needed, biblically and spiritually. 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Elisa, welcome back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Thanks for having me back.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>She has written a book called <em>The Beauty of Broken<\/em>\u2014how all of us kind of put on the air of perfection\u2014but the subtitle is: <em>There is No Such Thing as a Perfect Family: My Story and Likely Yours Too.<\/em>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>We\u2019ve already heard from you this week about your family of origin. Your mom and dad divorced when you were five years old. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>4:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYour dad really was done with you guys \/ your mom was an alcoholic. You grew up with a sister and a brother in a home where you were trying to hold everything together and owning that responsibility. I\u2019m curious about this\u2014you came to faith when you were 16 years old in the midst of all of this. How did you hear the gospel; and what did that do, if anything, to what you were dealing with in life?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Actually, I loved Jesus. I loved God, as a young child. Our mom would take my older sister and me to church\u2014the local Presbyterian church\u2014and drop us off on Sunday morning. I think she got a few hours to herself. We didn\u2019t know what to do\u2014so we joined the adult choir. It was kind of cute. We had these long stoles hanging off\u2014it was just great. Think Charley Brown\u2014that was us. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI knew about God, and I loved Him; but I didn\u2019t really know what that meant. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>5:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, when I was still in a church as a teen\u2014but then began to hear more about Jesus through the ministry of YoungLife\u2014I discovered what we would call the gospel\u2014the good news that God, not only loves us, but He went so far as to give His Son on a cross to pay the penalty for all of our sins. I just grabbed on to that for dear life. I think it gave me a couple of things\u2014it gave me reassurance that I was not alone and that I was not doing life alone. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut I think also, in becoming a Christian and starting this relationship with God, I think I began to develop an understanding of a mythology that: \u201cIf I give my life to God, and I\u2019m obedient according to His Word, then He\u2019s going to bless me! He\u2019s going to give me the goods!\u201d More than anything, I wanted to create a perfectly intact second family. I\u2019d look at my friends\u2014and they had moms with beehives, and pearls, and June Cleaver dresses, and they ate exactly at six o\u2019clock every night\u2014it was predictable \/ it was apparently loving\u2014looked great on the outside. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>6:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI wanted that!\u2014I wanted predictability, and safety, and security\u2014and I wanted to give that to children myself. So, I think there\u2019s a kind of double-edged sword there. My faith sustained me, and gave me a calling, and gave me a purpose and a reassurance; but I think I also assigned to it some impossible expectations.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I think a lot of people think that faith in Jesus is the pill you take that cures all of the bad in your past. There\u2019s a sense in which that\u2019s true, but the dysfunction of our lives isn\u2019t immediately erased. The transformation of our lives is on ongoing process; isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Yes. We don\u2019t understand\u2014I think we understand salvation. It means you\u2019re going to go to heaven \/ it means you have a relation with Jesus. But we don\u2019t understand sanctification, which is the process\u2014and by the way, it\u2019s a process\u2014of being conformed and shaped into Him. In Elisa-everyday-talk, I would just say: \u201cBasically, we\u2019re not done. If we were done, we\u2019d be dead.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>7:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThis is an ongoing life process. I didn\u2019t understand that until I was much older\u2014that everything we go through in life really does belong\u2014that this stuff does fit together \/ that God doesn\u2019t break us, but He does allow us to break. The first family was a broken family; and every other family ever since breaks in some way, shape, or form because we\u2019re broken people that God died to fix. He will do that, but not necessarily by Thursday at 7:00 p.m.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>As you, a young person, grew up in your family\u2014you were 16, you said, when you came to faith in Christ\u2014how did that impact your relationship with your dad, your mom, your stepmom, your sister, your brother? I mean, did it change anything? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>My sister, and brother, and I all came to faith in a season of about three to five years. My mom, I think, was a little threatened by it\u2014just confused. She had become a Christian, as a young girl, in a Baptist church at 12\u2014and went forward and was baptized\u2014but her life, then, went away from God \/ the church\u2014any expression of religion. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>8:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think she was confused and thought maybe I was a little eccentric in my faith.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tMy dad thought I was a wacko. Truly, I remember, at one point, when a six-year relationship I had had with my boyfriend ended. I really had to clarify God\u2019s call on my life and \u201cWhat now?\u201d I was just out of college. I felt God asking me to go to seminary and to formalize my education around being full-time in a vocation for Him. My dad thought I was going to become a nun\u2014and freaked out and called me and said: \u201cThere are other men out there, Elisa. You don\u2019t have to give up on them.\u201d He didn\u2019t understand that. It was a dear moment, actually, that he showed concern.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>It was actually in seminary that the new perfect family that you were going to form had its genesis; right? [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>I got the perfect guy. I will say that\u2014perfect guy for me. Yes, I met\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Love at first sight.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>It was. I met and married Evan Morgan within\u2014I think it was about seven or eight months\u2014we met and were married.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>9:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>With this ambition in your heart that: \u201cThis is going to be what I didn\u2019t have, growing up. Here\u2019s my chance to get it done right.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Right. Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>When did it first start to dawn on you that maybe there were going to be challenges in this new godly two seminary students getting married to one another, with the ambition of a perfect family?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>We knew, immediately, that we weren\u2019t going to be able to have children, biologically, because Evan had incurred and survived cancer. So, we knew we would be adopting children. I think that we went into that very innocently and naively\u2014thinking that was going to be awesome and we\u2019d be saving children as well as saving the world together. While it has been a total fulfillment to adopt children, it has not come without challenges.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSo, the very first thing I would say is\u2014we waited <em>forever<\/em> to have these children \/ to adopt these children. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>10:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThey just were infants when we got them; but I think the first, Eva, our daughter, was four-and-a-half years in a wait.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Four-and-a-half years from initiating the adoption process until you brought Eva home?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>And how long had you been married before you began initiating the adoption process?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Three-and-a-half seconds. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>So, you started in on kids pretty quick.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>We did. Well, we did because we knew it was going to be a long wait\u2014we didn\u2019t expect it to be that long. As we waited, we both served in full-time ministry\u2014I as a Dean of Women at a college and Evan in administration at the seminary. We were very full in ministry, in church, in friends, growing, and then came, finally, children.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I have to stop you, at this point, and say it\u2019s not a forgone conclusion, with a lot of couples who can\u2019t have children, that they\u2019ll adopt. How did God put on your hearts to confirm He wanted you to do something that really is noble? It really is selfless \/ it\u2019s self-sacrificing\u2014but it\u2019s go give a child who doesn\u2019t have a family \/ a home.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>11:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>It wasn\u2019t noble for us. I\u2019m going to be just really clear. We wanted to have children, and that\u2019s the only way we could have them. Evan knew it, immediately after his surgery, that he\u2019d be unable to have children. He felt God calling him then to raise a child that wasn\u2019t his own. I knew, as Evan and I fell in love, that that would be my journey toward motherhood. The process of being a woman who doesn\u2019t bear children is <em>huge<\/em>, and mine was voluntarily. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs a nearly 60-year-old woman, I have to tell you there are very painful times when I still grieve that\u2014that reality that I haven\u2019t borne children\u2014but I do think that, for me, and I\u2019m just being blunt honest\u2014is that I didn\u2019t do it nobly. I didn\u2019t do it because a daughter, out there, needed me. I did it because I needed a daughter \/ I did it because I needed a son. I hadn\u2019t really understood that until later in the process; but, for me, it was kind of a selfish decision.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>12:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Did you guys become instant parents? Was it one of these you get a phone call one day and, all of a sudden, you\u2019re a parent?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Yes. After the four-and-a-half years\u2014yes, we got a phone call on a Saturday of Easter weekend that we would be getting our daughter on Monday morning. I remember standing in church on Easter Sunday singing, \u201cChrist the Lord is risen today\u2026\u201d with tears streaming down our face. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat next day, we were in the adoption agency, walking through. There was this little bundle of pink, lying on a hard kind of banquet folding table. I\u2019m looking at the woman standing above her, going, \u201cShe\u2019s crying. Pick her up!\u201d In my heart, came this, \u201cWell, you\u2019re the mother<em>.\u201d <\/em>I knew I was that baby\u2019s mother, and I went over and picked up my daughter and bonded on the spot.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>I want to ask you to fast forward. I want to get more of the story here in a minute\u2014but just looking at that moment, when you picked that baby up\u2014what was the most important lesson you were about to learn?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>It would take me several years to really hear this, but that \u201cI am the mother this child needs.\u201d God began to speak that to me. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>13:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen she was about three years old\u2014I remember, truly, one night putting her to bed. Then she called me down the hall to come back, and I did. I had nothing left. I was like, \u201cSeriously?\u201d I was so close to getting to watch <em>ER<\/em> and George Clooney, and I was just done! I go back in the room. I am on empty, and it wasn\u2019t a pretty moment\u2014Monster Mom emerges. I got through the moment, but I went back to my bed. I didn\u2019t feel like I deserved Mommy Time any more.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI found myself praying Hannah\u2019s prayer from I Samuel, Chapter 3: \u201cFor this child I prayed, and now I give her over to the Lord <em>all the days of her life because You\u2019re going to be a better parent than I am, God<\/em>.\u201d It was like God just pushed at me there and said, \u201cElisa, do you really trust Me with her?\u201d and I\u2019m like, \u201cSure, You\u2019re God.\u201d It was like \u201cWell, do you trust Me to decide if she should get married or not or see her through a life-threatening illness?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe pushed me; and He goes, \u201cIf you trust Me with her truly, then do you trust Me to pick for her the very best mother for who I know she will become?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>14:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI have gone back to that moment for 30 years now and said, \u201cYes, I trust You.\u201d So, <em>everything <\/em>that she goes through\u2014that I go through \/ that we go through\u2014I go back to that moment, trusting: \u201cDo I trust God that He picked me to be her mother?\u201d And I do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This issue of releasing your kids is one of the things that you talk about in the book. You describe it as a core family value that moms and dads have to have the illusion of control pried from their fingers. They have to surrender to God\u2019s plan for their child\u2019s life; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Relinquishment is the word I think I use, which does mean to let go. It doesn\u2019t mean to stop caring, and it doesn\u2019t mean to be uninvolved. It doesn\u2019t mean to take a hike because there\u2019s no off-ramp in parenting. But it does mean a letting go\u2014you are called to relinquish them to Him.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>That commitment you made to God, when she was three years old, is one thing; but you say, 27 years later, you look back on it. That was a watershed moment. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>15:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn your book, you talk about several additional times when that commitment was put to a severe test. Which test do you think was the most difficult?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>When she was a teenager, I had a dream. I was walking through a home. In this home\u2014it was under construction\u2014and Jesus was my tour guide in this dream. He led me through different rooms, and He stopped at a bedroom. He said, \u201cThis bedroom is for your daughter\u201d; and then He went to the one right next door to it. He said, \u201cAnd this bedroom is for the baby.\u201d I went \u201cWhat?\u201d and I woke up. The next night, truly, I had the same dream repeated\u2014home under construction\u2014Jesus is the tour guide, \u201cThis room is for your daughter; this room is for the baby.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd I remember saying, \u201cShe\u2019s not pregnant.\u201d He looked at me and said, \u201cYes, she is.\u201d I truly shook this off. Just a few days\u2014maybe weeks later\u2014I was at MOPS, where I served as the CEO in those days. We were sitting around at a conference table, talking about the formation of teen MOPS\u2014for moms who were teenagers themselves. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>16:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI felt God whisper to me, \u201cYou\u2019re going to know more about this than anyone in this room.\u201d I thought, \u201cOh, my gosh\u2014I better talk to my daughter.\u201d I went home. I asked my beautiful varsity-swimming medalist\u2014back from a missions trip in Kenya, serving HIV orphans \/ just back from that\u2014I stopped her in the hall. I said, \u201cIs there any reason you could be pregnant?\u201d She looked at me and nodded. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2014never-before-pregnant me\u2014I get in my car, and go to the grocery store, and get an at-home pregnancy test, and I bring it home. Yes, she is pregnant; and I\u2019m blown away by this. It felt like, to me, that I had come from a broken family, and I had given all of my life to creating this perfectly intact second family\u2014we had spent time with Jesus \/ we did it right!\u2014and it felt, to me, like my second family fell and broke again.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>17:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>And the lessons of love, forgiveness, compassion of a mom who had chosen this little girl really came to bear in a big time way; didn\u2019t they?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>Such a long journey and a beautiful one, where God began to reveal in ways that I couldn\u2019t translate at first the beauty in broken. My daughter went through this process of this pregnancy and ended up having a baby way early through an abruptio placenta\u2014made the very painful decision, but important decision, to relinquish this baby\u2014and then continued with her life but veered off into some other surprising choices. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDuring this time, my son\u2014a few years younger than his sister\u2014began to lose his way as well\u2014him into addiction, and into legal issues, and truancy. We wondered, \u201cWas it because he was watching his own intrauterine development play out before his eyes because he also came from a teen mom, just about his sister\u2019s age, who carried and then relinquished him?\u201d\u00a0 \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>18:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe wondered, \u201cIs that what\u2019s happening, or is it all just my fault?\u201d\u2014which is where, of course, I went. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd the story goes on in our family\u2014of my daughter with another pregnancy, and an accident that changed her life in dramatic ways, and an abusive relationship. We go on and on here, and this is not a tied-up-in-a-bow story. This is a real life\u2014like everybody listening\u2014story of people who want to cling to God and do\u2014and sometimes bump along behind Him, trying to find our way\u2014and find ourselves broken, and in need of healing, and discovering a God who gets that abnormal is very normal, and that His people are wayward people, but they\u2019re never beyond His reach for redemption and healing.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You had a pastor or a seminary friend who shared with you that our kids\u2014there are really three factors that determine who they become; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>19:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Elisa: <\/strong>It\u2019s really rich. Yes, this was a wise learned man, who has since gone to be with Jesus; but he talked about heredity, which you really can\u2019t control\u2014and he talked about environment, which we can control to some extent\u2014but the surprising element that shapes kids, as well, is free will. We can\u2019t control it at all\u2014each of us gets to make our own choices. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tGod began to show me that I am responsible to mother my children as best I can, but I\u2019m not responsible for <em>their<\/em> choices and their responses. I\u2019ve had to relinquish that understanding as well. I can throw myself over a pothole. I can say, \u201cDon\u2019t go near that pothole,\u201d and put my body on top of it. They may pick me up, and throw me out of the way, and dive down by their own choices. In those moments, I need to relinquish responsibility of their choices.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dennis: <\/strong>What you\u2019re illustrating here, Elisa, is really what I think James, Chapter 1, commands us to do. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>20:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tHe says, \u201cThis is pure and undefiled religion\u201d\u2014basically, to go near the widow and the orphan in their distress. When you go near the orphan, you go near the heart of God. And in the process of going near the orphan, you find Life Himself, even in the midst of some of the drama that you live out because you chose to adopt. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFamilyLife is an advocate. I am bullish on the orphan\u2014on foster care \/ on adoption\u2014because I think it\u2019s upon the heart of God. It\u2019s why He adopted us\u2014it\u2019s at the heart of the gospel of Jesus Christ. If He hadn\u2019t adopted us, we\u2019d be lost. We\u2019d be without an identity \/ without a family.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI know it\u2019s been hard\u2014I read your book\u2014but I thank you for living out and modeling the love of Christ with your daughter and with your son through some very treacherous, turbulent days\u2014but for exhibiting the love of Christ in the midst of that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>21:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think that\u2019s a message more and more of the church today, and followers of Jesus Christ, need to hear and see.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes, and I think for those who will read your book, they will get some insight and some wisdom that comes from having traveled down a hard road as you guys have done, relying on the grace of God in every step along that journey. We have copies of that book, <em>The Beauty of Broken<\/em> by Elisa Morgan in our <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> Resource Center. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou can go, online, to FamilyLifeToday.com. There is a link in the upper left- hand corner of the screen that says, \u201cGO DEEPER.\u201d If you click that link, it will take you right to the spot where you can order a copy of <em>The Beauty of Broken<\/em> by Elisa Morgan.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOr if you prefer to order by phone, the toll-free number is 1-800-FL-TODAY. So, again, the website: FamilyLifeToday.com \/ the toll-free number: 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>22:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was reflecting with some friends recently about the fact that all of us in the journey of life are going to experience these kinds of detours, like you\u2019ve talked about here today, Elisa, where you wind up on a very different stretch of highway than the one you had thought you were going to be on when you started your journey. That\u2019s the reality of the path that God has us on. He sometimes assigns us to a different road than the one we thought we were going to be on. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe question is less about what highway you\u2019re going to be on\u2014the question is: \u201cAre you headed the right direction, and are you aware of the fact that God is with you? Is He your sustaining grace, however rocky the road might be?\u201d Here, at FamilyLife, we want to be providing ongoing help and encouragement so that, when things are smooth, you\u2019re in good shape; but, when things take a turn, you are able to rely on God\u2019s grace to help you through the hard times. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>23:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe appreciate those of you who share that vision with us\u2014to see every home become a godly home. We appreciate your support of this ministry that helps to make all of that happen. Right now, if you can help with a donation, we\u2019d love to say, \u201cThank you,\u201d by sending you a resource that Barbara Rainey has designed. She calls it \u201cUntie Your Story.\u201d It\u2019s a spool of napkin wraps. Each wrap has a question on it so that, after a meal is over, you can read your questions to one another and share your answers\u2014and have a little more substantive conversation than you might otherwise have around the dinner table.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s our thank-you gift to you when you support the ministry today. You can do that by going online at FamilyLifeToday.com. Click the link in the upper right-hand corner that says, \u201cI Care,\u201d to make an online donation; or call 1-800-FL-TODAY to make a donation over the phone. Of course, you can mail your donation to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> at PO Box 7111, Little Rock, AR. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>24:00<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tOur zip code is 72223. Again, ask for the \u201cUntie Your Story\u201d resource when you get in touch with us to make a donation.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we want to talk about the impact that parenting challenges can have on a marriage relationship. What do you do in the middle of a stretch of bumpy road to try to make sure your marriage is staying solid? Elisa Morgan will help us with that tomorrow. I hope you can tune in.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine. 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