Glenda cared for her ailing mother for years and every day they had a special routine.

When I would come home in the evening after work, I would often go through the high points of the day and one of those high points would be what I'd heard on focus on the family and the rich teaching and the encouragement.

Today, Glenda shares that same encouragement with others.

I'm excited to point anyone that's struggling to focus on the family.

I find that focus teaches me and it comforts me and it inspires me and it holds me up when things are really hard.

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I wanted this Bible to be mine. I didn't understand how. I didn't understand how in the world that would be mine.

I wanted that yoke that was easy and this burden that was light. I wanted this capacious God. I didn't want my flesh to be screaming about things that God didn't love.

I really wanted that and that was shocking to me.

Well, that's a profound statement from Dr. Rosaria Butterfield describing the incredible transformation God did in her heart, bringing her to a faith in Jesus Christ.

And we're eager to share Dr. Butterfield's powerful story with you on today's episode of Focus on the Family.

Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller.

I'm sure all of us have encountered someone who was so diametrically opposed to God, faith in the Bible that we wondered if there was any hope for their salvation.

In fact, we might be tempted to write certain people off because they are so blatantly living in sin and refuse to acknowledge that God even exists.

But in reality, the Lord can reach anyone. No one's beyond the grasp of God. Even the most unlikely of converts and Rosaria is a living example of God's grace and mercy and forgiveness, which are abundantly available to every one of us.

If you're listening right now, wondering if God knows you or cares about you, I want to urge you to lean into this wonderful story today because it will change your life.

And Dr. Butterfield has captured her story of transformation in a book called The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert, an English professor's journey into Christian faith.

Call us and we'll be happy to tell you more. Our number is 800, the letter A in the word family, 800-232-6459, or you can learn more about the book and our guests, the details are in the show notes.

And now Jim, here's how you began the conversation with Dr. Rosaria Butterfield on today's episode of Focus on the Family.

I want to start with kind of the beginning, where you're coming from, kind of you as a high school college student, what was your attitude, where were you at?

And this is before you encountered Jesus, obviously. So let's start right there. What kind of person were you?

Well, I was a thoughtful person. I was an intellectual. I had been raised in the Catholic church and had gone to predominantly Catholic schools. I loved the nuns. They taught me to diagram a sentence before I tried to interpret it.

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