A few years ago a focused staff member asked Alexis if she had any prayer needs.

And at that time my heart was so tender and I really was feeling like I wanted to give up on this marriage.

So I just told him quite straightly, like, I need help. We need help. Our marriage is very difficult and would you pray for our marriage? And he did.

She also found help on the radio.

Focus on the family saved my life.

It just was the lifeline that I needed every single day to keep going and

keep hoping. I'm Jim Daly. Help us save more families every month by calling

800 a family or donate at focus on the family

dot com slash family.

So he had this recovery that was totally against all probability and in medicine we say

oh it was an outlier and we're just grateful that it happened even if we don't

understand it but I couldn't ignore the fact that this had occurred

in response to his wife's prayer. That's Catherine Butler describing how God shows up

even when you experience sickness and pain and suffering in your life.

This is focused on the family with Jim Daly and thanks for joining us.

I'm John Fuller.

Well today we are going to talk about suffering.

It's not a light subject. It's not a light subject.

It's probably not a subject that you want to talk about

in our modern culture.

We want happy, joyful, kind of superficial discussions,

but it is important to understand that suffering is a part of this life,

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