Raising kids can really teach you some special things about God's heart for us and

especially going through some difficult challenges with our special needs son.

One of the lessons I've learned is to love my child like God does.

I just hear the Lord saying over and over again, John, just love him like I do.

And I can't do that, of course, in my own power.

So it draws me closer to the heart of God.

And I hope you find that even in challenging times there's a

richness for you in your family because of your kids. I'm John Fuller along

with Dr Danny Werta he's the VP of our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the family and

Let's go ahead and get to more of a conversation that Jim Daly and I had with Heidi St John about how God met her during an overwhelming season of her parenting.

Motherhood is a lot about humility and a lot about being willing.

One of the things I love to tell moms

is that importance of leaning into the Lord.

And I think the biggest moment for me

in remembering that God was with me all the time

was probably after I had my sixth baby and now you

got a picture I've got this house full of children where homeschooling them which is

something I never thought that I would do so I'm doing all of these things

trying to do them and feeling like I'm failing at everything, right?

Because that's how moms are guilt magnets. We always feel like we're failing at everything.

I woke up early one morning and I'm fairly certain that I hadn't really slept at all.

Went outside, I watched the sunrise over Mount St. Helens,

...