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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

A Wedding for Blended Couples

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

For couples facing remarriage, what's the way to do a wedding right? John and the Smalley's share how they've seen God restore people, even after an unwanted divorce. Also, Jim Daly and Dr. Ron Deal talk about ways kids can be involved in a blended family wedding.

 

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0:00.0

When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

0:09.0

He said, the first thing you need to realize that kids are a blessing or all of the

0:14.1

blessings that their gifts from God and the second thing you said was kid value

0:18.7

relationships not stuff. I'm Jim Daly let's give more families hope. Any gift you send will be doubled at

0:25.6

Focus on the Family.com slash gift. Most marriages start off with a wedding. It might be simple, it might be elaborate.

0:40.0

For many, it's the best day of their lives, but if you're getting remarried and you had a

0:45.8

painful divorce prior to that how do you handle the wedding day that ceremony?

0:50.0

Well I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley.

0:53.0

They lead our marriage team here.

0:54.4

And Aaron, you've been to a lot of weddings, and I wonder where you've seen God smile and offer

1:00.0

restoration in a wedding ceremony because it didn't work out for one or

1:04.2

both of the individuals in a prior marriage.

1:06.5

I'm smiling John because it makes me think of our oldest daughter Taylor who

1:11.3

was remarried in August after just a tragic

1:14.8

divorce in 2020 that she did not want and before Greg gave his blessing to this

1:22.2

young man who was coming to him asking for the blessing to ask

1:27.6

Taylor to marry him. Taylor wrote something and I'm going to read it really quick because it's just so precious.

1:33.0

She wrote this letter and gave it to Greg as her blessing over her new husband.

1:38.0

It says, in 2020 during the worst season of my life,

1:41.0

a friend recommended reading a devotional book about praying circles

1:44.4

around the desires of your heart and watching how God would answer them.

1:48.7

It was in that season I was able to spend a lot of time reflecting on one of the biggest desires of my

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