Hi, Dr. Craig. I greatly appreciate your ministry and have learned so much from you.

One of the most encouraging things you have shared is actually your story of failure in your PhD studies in Germany,

and how you manage to bounce back and overcome that.

I've had setbacks in life and studies, as have we all, and it was a great encouragement to me.

My question, in some ways, is about another aspect of your personal life, and I hope it might be of wide enough interest for you to share your thoughts.

Let me give some background info that is relevant. I am a 34-year-old father of three young kids, five, three, and one. I earned my master's degree in theology before getting married, with the goal of getting

into a funded PhD program and earning my PhD or completing part of it before having kids. It was not to be,

however, and my wife and I had our daughter a little less than two years after we got married.

I still pursued PhD opportunities,

praying that the Lord would open the doors if it was his will, and soon I was preparing to

go study with the theologian-slash philosopher William J. Abraham at Truitt Seminary where he was

moving, but he sadly passed away the summer before I moved down there.

I put my PhD dreams on hold for a few years, and my wife and I had two more children.

An opportunity opened up for me to pursue a funded PhD part-time at a university.

It's all fully accredited, while still working full-time, so I am doing that now.

My wife and I prayed and agreed that I should go for it.

I am getting ready to start my fourth semester, and overall things are going well, but I am exhausted.

I get really good grades and feedback from my professors, and they have encouraged me by saying I have written some good papers that I might be able to turn into articles to publish.

So things are going well, but I feel as though I struggle to remember many of the things

I learn from semester to semester.

I feel overwhelmed with all the information and feel as though I will never grasp the info

I need to be a really good philosopher.

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