Ben Sasse
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And my boy was only 14, and I felt a heaviness.
I knew that God wasn't surprised by the diagnosis.
There is not a maverick molecule in the universe, but I didn't like the idea of my 14-year-old son not having a dad around at 16.
I didn't like the idea of my daughters, who are 22 and 24, not having their dad there to welcome down the aisle.
And I felt a real heaviness about that.
But I've continued to feel a peace about the fact that death is something that we should hate.
We should call it a wicked thief.
And yet it's pretty good that you pass through the veil of tears one time and then there will be no more tears.
There will be no more cancer.
They have a great mom and they are theologically rooted and their hope is in Jesus.
And they, all three are doing really well.
My girls are 22 and 24, and I know that our conversations are the true and accurate conversations.
My 14-year-old son is gritty enough and tough enough that I think even if he wasn't doing well, he could probably fake it.
So I don't fully know, so I covet prayers on that, but he seems to be doing well.
Happy to go firehose on this one.
Number one,
honor the Sabbath and keep it holy.
Man, I wish I'd treated the Lord's day differently over the course of my life.
I've always known it, believed in it and thought, you know, maybe next week we'll get better at take.
We, we, we, we've been at Sunday worship every morning forever, but man, am I tempted by 1245 or one 30 in the afternoon to, to get back to work or to an addictive level level work about the NFL.