Your marriage can be healed.

A hope restored marriage intensive from focus on the family can transform you and your spouse's relationship in just a few days.

We'll go to this thing, but this is it.

If this doesn't work, we're done.

What we have now, it's way more than we ever had before and that I ever even dreamed of in the marriage.

Discover more at hoperestored.com.

That's hope restored.com.

Where God resides, where his heart beats the loudest, is not in those easy, comfortable places.

So if you want to hear God's heartbeat more fully,

understand them more fully, and sit in the worth and value of life and humanity,

then you have to be willing to step into those hard places. You can have easy, that's fine,

but you're missing out on the heartbeat of God if you do that.

A rather profound statement from Heather Avis. She's a mom and an advocate who wants to help you and me rethink what a normal family looks like.

Heather and her husband, Josh, are on today's focus on the family with Jim Daly.

I'm John Fuller and we're glad you've joined us. We're going to share the remarkable story of this husband and wife who had a plan for their

future family.

But you know what God will do with a plan, right?

And God gave Heather and Josh his heart for needy children who are often unwanted in our culture.

And in the United States alone, there are an estimated 343,000 children

in foster care. Just think of that number, kids who need safe and healthy and godly homes.

A significant portion of those children are legal orphans because the parental rights, for whatever

reason, have been terminated by the court.

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