Welcome everyone to Family Talk. It's a ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute, supported by listeners just like you.

I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us.

Well, welcome to Family Talk. I'm Roger Marsh. Hope that you and your family had a wonderful

Resurrection Day celebration yesterday. On today's Family Talk broadcast, we're bringing you a deeply

moving testimony, one that speaks to the heart of what it means to trust God through life's

darkest valleys. Our guest is Dale Evans-Rogers, beloved wife of cowboy legend Roy Rogers, and a woman

whose faith was tested in ways most of us can hardly imagine.

Dale wasn't just a Hollywood star and an accomplished author.

She was a mother who experienced the unthinkable, losing three of her children.

In just a moment, you're going to hear Dr. Dobson

provide some context for today's program, sharing a bit about his personal connection to Dale Evans.

Then we'll hear Dale herself speaking to an audience as she opens her heart about grief, loss,

and the sustaining power of Jesus Christ. Her testimony is both heartbreaking and hope-filled,

a reminder that even in our deepest pain, God's presence never leaves us. Here now is Dr. James

Dobson to begin today's edition of Family Talk. When I was a boy, I loved playing cowboys and Indians.

I remember pretending to be Jean Autry or Hopalong Cassidy or Tom Mix or the Red Rider.

And when I'd finished school, I would rush home and go to my radio and turn on the Long Ranger.

It's actually Lone Ranger, but that's not what I called it.

The music for that program was the William Tell Overture, and I would bounce to the music on a chair and pretend I was riding a white horse like the

long ranger did.

Life was very simple and predictable in those days.

Well, the reason I bring that up is because in the early 1980s, my staff and I went out to Apple Valley, California, and met with Dale Evans,

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