This is a huge thing about parenting is effectively loving your children.

If the child feels loved by the parents, they tend to grow up healthy emotionally.

If they don't feel loved by the parents, they grow up with a lot of internal struggles.

And so this is an important part of parenting.

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All right, so one of the greatest moments of my life, and I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

Because I'm going to say it was one of the greatest moments of my life, too.

Was the day that our son and daughter-in-law adopted two of our

grandsons. Both those days at separate times were really remarkable.

A courtroom in Denver became a sacred place for us. were really

a courtroom in Denver became a sacred place for us. And you know, as we just wept.

Yeah.

Watching.

I think the piece of it too that really struck us was how we have been adopted by Christ

into his family and that it takes a whole new meaning on and significance when you watch it take place in that core

I mean you know and we're going to talk about this today with two sort of experts in this

area Dr Gary Chapman's with us talking about the five love languages applying to an adoption situation with

Dr. Laurel Schaller. So you know better than anybody what we're gonna talk

about but what hit me in that courtroom so strongly was I know what those little boys don't know.

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