Moving on From a Difficult Past
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Even if you've come from a difficult family situation, God can still redeem your story. The key is never trying to heal on your own. John and Danny explain why counseling can help in overcoming a painful family past. Featuring Elizabeth Oates.
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| 0:00.0 | We all had things in our past that are just difficult to let go of or to overcome and if you're facing a situation and you're not sure |
| 0:15.3 | we want you to know God has not forgotten you he wants to give you a hope for a better |
| 0:20.8 | future I'm John Fuller joined by Dr. Danny Werta. He's in charge of our |
| 0:25.3 | parenting and youth department here at Focus on the Family. We're going to listen now to a |
| 0:29.8 | conversation from Elizabeth Oates and she and Jim Daly talked last time about her pain of coming from a broken home and now Elizabeth describes what it was like to start a family of her own. |
| 0:43.0 | Now here's here's where it gets good. |
| 0:46.0 | And this is where the listeners are leaning in now |
| 0:48.0 | because we're going to get to how you met your husband |
| 0:50.0 | and all your fears. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | I mean, so describe that for us, how you met Brandon. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.0 | And what was going on in your head about, uh-oh, I can't do this. |
| 0:59.0 | Mm-hmm. Yeah, we met in college and you know that typical college sweetheart story you know we dated for about three and a half |
| 1:06.8 | years before we got married and we had a pretty easy dating relationship no |
| 1:11.8 | drama you know always got along, fell in love, that |
| 1:16.3 | sounds like courtship. |
| 1:17.3 | It was pretty uneventful and anti-clamachik. I mean, we were just a really easy couple. |
| 1:24.2 | You know, we weren't, |
| 1:24.8 | we didn't have any major ups and downs. |
| 1:26.6 | But when we got married, that's when everything began to unravel. |
| 1:29.9 | We had a very short honeymoon period about a month and then I think I looked around and thought what did I get myself into |
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