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 to Family Talk, the broadcast division of the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute.

I'm Roger Marsh sitting in the co-host chair today, and we've got a great conversation lined up with a very, very special guest.

Becky Harling is with us, and she has written a fascinating new book about what it means to be lonely in the culture right now.

She's written a brand new

resource on this called Cultivating Deeper Connection in a Lonely World. That will be the topic

of our conversation. Becky is an author, a speaker, a podcast host. She's written numerous books,

and does she and her husband, Steve, make their home right here in Colorado with four grown

children and a growing number of

grandchildren in tow. Becky Harling, welcome back to Dr. James Dobson's family talk. Thank you,

Roger. It's great to be with you guys. It's nice to make the connection, especially with a local

author, but someone that I've known for many years and have the great privilege of having

conversations about these issues. This new book is called

cultivating deeper connections in a lonely world. And you talk about one of the times when you had

this kind of come to Jesus moment where you realized, hey, wait a minute. I mean, it seems like

we've got all these different devices that connect us. You know, you and are connected on an app right

now as we're having this recording

conversation. We've got phones, we've got laptops, we've got tablets, all these different ways of, my wife has a watch now, one of those smart watches. And so she'll get phone calls or text messages, and I call it her Jetson's watch. It just shows you how old I am. You know, I figured that that's the way they do it. Dick Tracy, something like that.

But with all those connections, you realize that the world is also getting lonelier simultaneously.

And you kind of had an aha moment with Steve not too long ago.

Talk about that.

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