God would say just love him just love him just be kind making some cookies taking

some to work having him over for a good meal Things like that of just sewing love. That's where I learned a new

lesson about what God's love really is. It isn't just loving your neighbor. I thought I could do that pretty good, but I had to learn to really

love my husband in a new way.

That's Opel Ericsson and she joins us today on Focus on the Family along with her husband

Ron and you're going to appreciate their story. I'm John Fuller and your host is

Focus on the Family President and author Jim Daly. You know John here focus on the family we love

stories of hope I mean that's what it's all about redemption and the Christian life is

that story where people are struggling they don't know their purpose

they don't know what's happening why things are going wrong they encounter Christ

through a friend through a church through whatever means and their life begins to make more sense and they begin hopefully to change and that's the key that sanctification process.

Romans 5 tells us we rejoice in our sufferings knowing that suffering produces

endurance and endurance produces character and character produces hope and

hope does not put us to shame because God's love has been poured into our hearts

through the Holy Spirit who's been given to us. Man I love that. I mean that is

power-packed and it sums up the story we're going to hear today.

Yeah Ron and Opel Erickson have walked through the fires of that kind of suffering you

described that there's been moments of failed marriage, rejection, adultery,

but God has done a remarkable work and we are so pleased to share that with our listeners today.

Ron is an accomplished steel guitarist

and Opel sings and they call themselves musicianaries as they minister to seniors

across the country. They've been singing together for over 40 years.

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