Best of 2024: Leading Your Family as a Single Mom (Part 2 of 2)

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Relationships, Society & Culture, Parenting

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a single parent, you’ve got the job of two people and doing all you can to keep your family afloat! On this two-day Focus on the Family broadcast, Pam Farrel (raised by a single mom) and PeggySue Wells (a single mom of seven!) offer guidance to single moms (and dads!) as they navigate life with their children. They examine some of the best decisions a single mom can make—things like choosing to thrive, creating a nurturing home, introducing your child to Jesus, and learning to respond to situations in healthy ways. It’s an encouraging conversation for the single parent!

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0:00.0	Becky was miserable in her marriage. She was ready to give up, but God pricked her heart.
0:06.6	I got down on my knees and I said, Lord, I can't do this. I said, God, if I'm going to stay, I cannot leave,
0:13.4	but God, you've got to take over because I can't do this anymore. God answered Becky's prayer
0:18.6	in an unexpected way, and it transformed her family.
0:23.4	I went to the mailbox one day and got my mail, and there on the top of the stack of mail was a magazine
0:29.4	from Focus on the Family, and every article in the magazine was about marriage.
0:34.8	Talk about amazing. That was a miracle Like that, that was a miracle.
0:38.5	I knew it was a miracle.
0:40.1	I'm Jim Daly.
0:42.1	Through our magazine and podcast,
0:43.6	Becky was able to restore and rebuild the relationship
0:45.0	with her husband.
0:46.3	And today, you can help us
0:47.9	give families hope.
0:49.3	Like Becky's,
0:50.5	donate and your gift will be doubled.
0:52.9	Call 800 the letter A in the word family. visit focus on the family.com slash gift.
1:04.1	And at one point, too, I went to my mentor and I'm crying and I'm snotting and, you know, just all.
1:08.8	And she's like, you're concerned you're not
1:11.0	enough. And I'm, but how can I be enough for my children? How can I love them enough? And she said,
1:16.4	you can't. She said, a two-parent home can't fill your child's heart with all the love they need.
1:23.0	The only one that can is the Lord. That's Peggy Sue Wells, and she joins us today on our best of
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