Welcome everyone to Family Talk. It's a ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute, supported by listeners just like you.

I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us.

Well, welcome back to another edition of Dr. James Dobson's Family Talk.

I'm Roger Marsh, your co-host for the program today.

In our continuing conversation with Jess Ronnie, she is the author of Caregiving with Grit

and Grace, 100 Days of Hope and Encouragement.

She's an author, speaker, podcast host, film producer, and a caregiving advocate. She's also the founder and

executive director of the Lucas Project, which is a nonprofit organization that provides recognition,

resources and respite for special needs caregivers. She and her husband Ryan live in Michigan.

They have a blended family with eight children, four of hers, three of his, and one of theirs.

And that also includes their son Lucas, the afore hers, three of his, and one of theirs. And that also includes

their son, Lucas, the aforementioned of the Lucas Project, who has some rather profound disabilities.

And Jess, welcome back to Dr. James Dobson's family talk. It's good to continue this conversation

with you today. Yeah, I'm excited to be here. For those who did not hear part one of the program,

of course, it's up at Dr. James Dobson.org forward slash family talk. Jess is the proud mom of four kids with her

first husband, Jason, who fought a valiant battle with cancer, and then she found herself at the age of 33

as a widow with four young children, including Lucas, who was born with some pretty profound disabilities.

She met Ryan online.

She blog, he blogged.

He had just lost his wife to brain cancer, and they had three children in that marriage.

And they fell in love, and he swept her off her feet.

And they've had a whirlwind romance that's lasted now 14 plus years.

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