When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize if kids are a blessing, or all of the

blessing, that their gifts from God, and the second thing you said was, kids value

relationships, not stuff. Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed and today they have a happy thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just the kind of overall negativity about kids and to hear from someone, you know,

just godly truth that kids are special, that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

I'm Jim Daly and we love kids.

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Well we covered stress in the last episode of this podcast and it really can be a great

revealer in the marriage about what's in your heart and what's going on inside. That pressure tends to push it on out. And today

on the marriage podcast we're going to discuss responding distress in productive ways.

I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley and you all

both work with couples what do you do and how often do you find a couple who's

burnt out? All the time. That's why they're there. Yes, it's quite common and even amongst our

friends just watching them as they they work hard. They have kids they're building life together, there's a lot of stress and especially during

COVID and as a result of more stress added to people. Many are burned out.

We have some dear friends who, he's a pilot.

And that's been challenging.

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