MFP162: Life-Giving Wounds - An Interview with Dan and Beth Meola
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Divorce is so common in our culture today that the effects of it on children can easily be dismissed. Almost every couple who gets married has a family member whose life was affected by divorce, so we can think it must not be a big deal. But those people who are adult children of divorce will tell you that it is. It is a wound they carry their whole lives, but because of Jesus and His power over sin and death that wound can actually be transformed and become a life-giving wound. Dan and Beth Meola are the founders of the ministry "Life Giving Wounds" which serves those adults whose parents have divorced. Their compassion, wisdom, and vulnerability in sharing their own stories is inspiring and encouraging. Listen in to this conversation even if you are not an adult child of divorce. It will give you insights that you have not considered before regarding this pervasive issue in our society.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the messy family podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family. |
| 0:10.0 | Hosted by our parents, Mike Hernan and Alicia Hornin. |
| 0:15.0 | They're pretty awesome, but they're not experts. |
| 0:18.0 | Because family life is really messy. |
| 0:24.5 | Hello messy families. |
| 0:27.8 | I hope you are having a great time this summer. |
| 0:33.4 | We actually just had a summer vacation getaway with all our kids, |
| 0:36.4 | and it was awesome. |
| 0:43.1 | There is something so beautiful about just getting away not looking at phones not worrying about work or anything else going on and just kind of having a huge getaway |
| 0:51.1 | and I say it was more refreshing than I anticipated. It is, it is, it is, yeah, |
| 0:59.1 | but it's great to be home again and sleep my own bed, which is, which is always wonderful. |
| 1:03.7 | Alicia is visiting family as she kind of rounds out her part of the vacation time away. |
| 1:11.6 | And, but I thought we'd want to share this special interview that we did with all of you right away. |
| 1:19.6 | We had the chance with our member site, the Messy Family Neighborhood. |
| 1:23.6 | Every month we do a special date night. |
| 1:26.6 | And we had a really fun couple that joined us |
| 1:31.1 | for a date night this past month. And we want to share some of the conversation that we had |
| 1:37.7 | with them. Whether you are like me, an adult child, a divorce, whether you're married to one or no one, but |
| 1:47.2 | there's also actually insights that I think kind of bridge over to a lot of areas in our lives. |
| 1:54.3 | There was insights that I even got from this interview that I think are really going to |
| 1:58.7 | strike a chord with anybody who's married. |
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