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 if kids are a blessing, or all of the

blessing, that their gifts from God, and the second thing you said was, kids value

relationships, not stuff. Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed and today they have a happy thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just the kind of overall negativity about kids and to hear from someone, you know,

just godly truth that kids are special, that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

I'm Jim Daly and we love kids.

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You and your spouse are made to reflect God's glory to the world and you compliment each

other but you're also very different. So what does that look like? I'm John Fuller along

with Greg and Aaron Smalley and Aaron you do a lot of

counseling. Some couples, the differences are so big between them that it leads to a lot of

conflict and a lot of insecurity.

I mean, this is a fairly common thing, right?

Absolutely.

I mean, we experience this in our own house.

Oh, you have somebody living with you? I'm laughing as I'm thinking about this.

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