I came in and I'm, you know, at this point, just a couple weeks away from delivery

and just heard the words that I never thought I would hear, which were just, I'm sorry.

And just had a moment to acknowledge what he was telling me that there was no heartbeat and that our baby had died.

Susan was devastated, but we reminded her of God's unfailing love.

And so focus on the family really was monumentally instrumental in teaching me this truth and healing me.

And the resource of focus on the family was teaching me to grieve with hope.

I'm Jim Daly.

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FocusOnthefamily.com slash family. You see, you know one of the reasons you need to believe that

you are a worthwhile person? If you don't believe that God created you unique and you don't need

to be like somebody else. The first person

you're going to be mad at is God. Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, humorist Ken Davis

shares encouragement for anyone who has doubts about their worth as a human being. Well, thanks for

joining us today. I'm John Fuller. Ken Davis is one of our all-time favorites on this broadcast because he's so transparent about his own flaws and how he has chosen to find joy in life despite those inadequacies.

Ken is a sought-after speaker, an award-winning author of 12 books and the founder of the Score Speaker Academy,

where people can learn how to become great speakers themselves.

And Ken has been on this broadcast dozens of times.

He has, and today's presentation is actually one that we've never aired before.

It was recorded back in the mid-1980s in front of a group of high schoolers and young adults.

By the way, that's the context for my introduction to Ken Davis.

I saw him as a high school student in the Twin Cities.

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