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1281. Want Stress Relief? Change Your Questions By Darla Isackson, in Meridian Magazine.

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I believe we all need to remember this important counsel!   Want Stress Relief? Change Your Questions By  Darla Isackson  · October 8, 2020 Editor’s Note: Beloved Meridian author Darla Isackson recently passed away. We will continue to share her wonderful insights here periodically. I want to tell you a poignant story I heard first-person from a father I admire and respect. Years ago he gave me permission to share it, but I’ll protect his privacy at this point by changing the father’s name in the story to Brother White and his son’s to Jared. God Does Not Give Us Power to Control Our Children, but to Control Ourselves Previous to the prayer scene I share below, Brother White had spent several miserable years trying to control his rebellious drug-addicted son’s behavior–and had utterly failed. He said All pride was gone; all self-assurance and power were gone. I was broken, beaten and I could not carry on another step. My son was being destroyed and it seemed that God would not help! I