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 know sometimes life gets in the way of slash marriage

podcast.

You know sometimes life gets in the way of doing things that are meaningful with your spouse like

praying together or maybe reading the Bible.

I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley who run our marriage department

and I don't know about y'all but my wife and I are in totally different schedules

these past several years where she gets up and it's morning time and she wants to do

some scripture reading together and morning time for me is I do my exercise I read

and I get out the door and we've had to kind of figure out what are we

going to do about that I mean we want to be together on the same page literally

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