When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child, Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize that kids are a blessing or all of the

blessings that their gifts from God and the second thing you said was kid value

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You remember that feeling you had when you were first in love and then you first got married and everything was perfect and that other person was just walking on water.

There was nothing wrong they could do and then there's this

realization perhaps an explosive moment as was the case for me when it was like oh I'm married to somebody who or I'm in love with somebody who has

flaws I'm John Fuller along with Greg Smalley and for me Greg it was in the

Ozarks we honeymoon in the Oz and it was day four of our honeymoon

We stopped at a little store did some you know shopping around and Dina I'm not assured this before but Dina wanted to get

some pottery that she saw some some bowls for the kitchen and I'm like

you wanted you want to be a missionary in like five or ten years and so what's the sense of buying a bowl

today we'll have to get rid of later.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, very practical and I was cheap and she cried and it was a very icy drive

as we went to our next destination.

All over a bowl.

Yeah.

In hindsight, just buy the bowl, will you John?

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