You know you think about the family of God. It's a blended family. We as Gentiles are

grafted in as a blended family and that's the beauty of what God's people can be

and I think that's what has stirred my heart in this blended family thing as difficult

as it can be to go, we're painting a picture for our kids and for the world around us of the kingdom of God. Welcome to Family Life Today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

You can find us at family life today.com.

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There are hard situations in life and then there are really hard situations and

not all losses are of the same magnitude.

And let's just say this, not all blended families begin the same way,

but both require us really trusting God

with what you can't change or control.

Yeah and today we are talking about some hard stuff.

I mean, every family, every person goes through difficult.

And we were laughing when he said, really difficult,

but it's not funny at all.

It's really hard when you got to trust God

in hard times, difficult times.

And you know, we're talking about blended today

because we're gonna listen to a conversation with Ron Deal.

He's the director of our blended family ministry

here at Family Life and has a Family Life blended podcast and today we're going to listen to his

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