biracial families Archives - Welcome https://lettersfromhomepodcast.com/tag/biracial-families/ Sat, 22 Oct 2022 23:50:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 “Family Honor” (The Story of The Real Jerry Dugan) Ep. 45 https://lettersfromhomepodcast.com/podcast/family-honor-the-story-of-the-real-jerry-dugan-ep-45/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-honor-the-story-of-the-real-jerry-dugan-ep-45 https://lettersfromhomepodcast.com/podcast/family-honor-the-story-of-the-real-jerry-dugan-ep-45/#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2021 02:57:58 +0000 https://lettersfromhomepodcast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1972 "In the movies they always have that 'in case I die' letter they hand to their buddy to hand off, but I was so convinced I was going to die, that I wrote my letter. I disguised the wording just enough so it didn't freak my wife out when she read it, but it was there. Everything I wanted to say to her was in that letter. I folded it, and I mailed it that night. It was one last mail run before we crossed the border."

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]]> Family honor.  Does your family name bring you joy? For some it brings shame, and a deep desire to restore that honor.  Jerry Dugan shares his story and journey to bring honor to his family name.   
At 14, in his mind, his family name stood for trouble, heartbreak, bullying, racial microaggressions  and  brokenness.   He had already been through so much in his young  life. And this environment took a huge toll.
Jerry shares with us the life-changing  prayers and  loving God that lead him to a new family honor, and helped him to change the generational patterns that informed his childhood. He isn’t perfect, but he is The Real Jerry Dugan.

Jeremiah 1:5-“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed  you a prophet to the nations.”

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Topics Shared:
Biracial childhood
Tiger Mom
Performance-based acceptance
Performance-based affection
Top Gun style bet to break up his parents
Heart-breaking divorce
The Army brushed a lot of things under the carpet
Suicide ideations and suicide attempts
Intervention
Loving foster home
Bullied by uncles in Ca. 
His gentle father flips the switch to military policeman with army training
A turning point
Deployment to Kuwait, 1/’03-3/’03
Writing the ‘in case I die’ letter
War homecoming and seeing his kids for the first time

Quotes:
“When you are 7 or 8 years old and the amount of affection you are getting from your mom, the kind of attention you get from your mom is solely based on your performance in an activity, that sets a weird expectation.”

“In the movies they always have that ‘in case I die’ letter they hand to their buddy to hand off, but I was so convinced I was going to die, that I wrote my letter. I disguised the wording just enough so it didn’t freak my wife out when she read it, but it was there. Everything I wanted to say to her was in that letter.  I folded it, and I mailed it that night. It was one last mail run before we crossed the border.”

“We as a church can do better, back off the condemnation,  and demonstrate more of the Jesus who hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors and treated them with dignity, treated them with respect because he honored their dignity.”

References:

Beyond the Rut Website & Podcast:
https://beyondtherut.com/
https://therealjerrydugan.com/

Jerry Dugan’s Ted Talk:
http://therealjerrydugan.com/category/biblical-marriage/

Marriage Episode with Meg Glesener:
https://beyondtherut.com/meg-glesener-healthy-marriage-btr-236/

The Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
& Website: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

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]]> https://lettersfromhomepodcast.com/podcast/family-honor-the-story-of-the-real-jerry-dugan-ep-45/feed/ 2 Ep. 29-“The Search For Redemption” Holland Webb https://lettersfromhomepodcast.com/podcast/the-search-for-redemption-holland-webb/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-search-for-redemption-holland-webb https://lettersfromhomepodcast.com/podcast/the-search-for-redemption-holland-webb/#respond Fri, 25 Sep 2020 02:00:00 +0000 https://lettersfromhomepodcast.com/?post_type=podcast&p=1818 Losing a parent at an early age can be traumatic. It can leave a gaping hole, and take years to understand. Holland Webb spent years searching for what was lost, and ultimately as a life mission, has sought to redeem that loss by being that for someone else.
Thus began his adoption of two little boys, age 3 and age 4, while himself a single 27-year-old man, which greatly grew his faith in Jesus Christ. His road to personal redemption is remarkable.

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]]> Losing a parent at an early age can be traumatic.  It can leave a gaping hole, and take years to understand. Holland Webb spent years searching for  what was lost, and ultimately as a life mission, has sought to redeem that loss by being that for someone else.
 Thus began his adoption of two little boys, age 3 and age 4, while himself a single 27-year-old man, which greatly grew his faith in Jesus Christ. His road to personal redemption is remarkable.

Currently Holland is  a cohost of “The Afterword: A Conversation About the Future of Words and All Things Literary” a podcast, he cohosts with Amy Bowlin.  He is also the founder at The Webb Digital Marketing Company, LLC.  He has co-authored the book ‘Adventures in Fatherhood”, with Carlton Hughes.

(In this episode he references several books and amazing authors, including Don Miller and Ryan Holiday.)

Holland’s Website:
https://www.hollandwebb.com/
The Afterword Podcast:
https://www.hollandwebb.com/category/blog/
Adventures in Fatherhood:
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Fatherhood-Devotional-Holland-Webb/

A Bible verse that shaped his faith journey: Proverbs 31:8- “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.”

Some of the topics covered in this episode:
*growing up without a Father
*filling holes from our childhood
*single parenting
*parenting through the difficult teen years
*how Americans are perceived in the Phillippines
*working for non-profit companies
*International Disability and Development Consortium. https://www.iddcconsortium.net/
*cohosting a podcast
*challenging our assumptions
*missionaries
*adoption as a single man
*biracial families
*fulfilling in others what we lack
*caring for parents with dementia

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