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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It seems that pretty much every couple has a fight or an argument or disagreement or

something like that.

But however you do it, the key is to work through it and find some sort of a

resolution I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley and they're in charge of

our marriage department here at focus.

Aaron, what helps you keep, let's call it a healthy perspective

after there's been an argument?

It's important to begin that process even during the argument and there's a lot of self soothing

that goes on a missed conflict to know that we're going to be okay. This is good

for me, this is good for our marriage to have differing opinions and to have hard conversations.

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