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From Margaret
Several years ago, when our second son went overseas, to England, he planned to settle there. That would have made, one son in Australia and the other in England. How awful! I had some sort of emotional/panic attack. I couldn’t sit still. I had to walk all the time or work. I was exhausted. I had to open the car window all the time, as I “couldn’t breathe.” It really got bad!

I decided to go the Adventist Hospital. God was really in control as He directed me to a wonderful young doctor. He interviewed me and I did my best to explain my “symptoms.” He listened and then he prayed. He said, “I am not going to give you medicine. I think you have a ‘wonderful problem’, a problem that I wish more Chinese mothers had. You care deeply about your children and you did not try and talk them out of going in their chosen directions, like a lot of mothers. But now you are feeling sad, lonely, scared (for them). God sees your heart and He sees the extreme love you have for your boys.

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