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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Well, if you're honest, you probably brought some baggage into your marriage.

I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley, and Greg, you work so often with couples during pre-marital counseling and a lot of times I'm guessing

they're still if not just starting to deal with things from their past.

They're all wrestling.

We all are wrestling with the past.

We're human.

We've grown up in a fallen world.

We have human parents.

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