After a series of bad choices, Shelly was a single mom without a clue of what to do next.

Then she got married and discovered a powerful resource for her family.

Focus helped with parenting, helped with marriage, you know, struggles that, resources

that they suggested.

They helped me tremendously in getting over guilt and shame, walking me through that

so that I knew how to be a believer and how to be a good mom.

So I can't imagine my early walk or my walk at all with that focus on the family.

I'm Jim Daly. Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, we're able to give new hope to families like Shelly's, and we invite you to join our family strengthening team.

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Please call 800 the letter A and the word family, or visit focus called, You know, I've been speaking this message on fear lately and that was scary. We had to go help.

We had the ability to and I believe we're all prompted to do things, but when God opens the doors for you to go do things

and you know the only thing that's keeping you back is the you know the whispering in

your ear from Satan saying you're not good enough you're not good enough you're

not this is dangerous we had to and we did that's Chad Robeshow and he's our guest today on Focus on the Family talking about his service to America in Afghanistan.

He's going to inspire you to support those you know who are veterans and military members, so stay with us.

This is Focus on the Family with your host, Focus President and author Jim Daly, and I'm John Fuller.

John Tomorrow's Veterans Day and Veterans deserve so much respect as they have sacrificed so much so we can

live in a free country and it should never become trite for us to hear that.

We need to think about what that means.

Many of them have a difficult transition out of the service, which Chad experienced, and we're

going to talk about that today.

And he's now doing a lot of great

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