Speaking Your Adopted Child’s Love Language
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Adoption brings unique joys and challenges. Parents and children often experience emotional distress, trauma, and disappointment. You can’t compensate for what your children have lost. But through the lens of the Five Love Languages, adoptive mom and counselor Dr. Laurel Shaler wants to help you experience love and support for your family. She highlights specific ways that she loves her children – and how you can too!
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| 0:00.0 | For more than 25 years, Monica suffered from an addiction to drugs and alcohol, |
| 0:06.1 | fueled in part by her painful and shameful past. |
| 0:10.3 | The thought would come to my mind that I had had these abortions. |
| 0:15.0 | I would not want to think about it because the pain was just too real. |
| 0:19.9 | Thankfully, God healed Monica's heart, and today, she supports focus on the family's |
| 0:25.2 | pro-life ministry. |
| 0:26.7 | I want to support a ministry that can help change the trajectory of people's life that are |
| 0:32.7 | contemplating abortion. |
| 0:34.6 | I can't go back in time and change my life and change my decisions, but I can support a |
| 0:40.9 | ministry that can help positively change someone else's. I'm Jim Daly. Let's save babies and give |
| 0:48.1 | families hope today. Donate and your gift will be doubled. Call 800A family or visit focus on the family.com |
| 0:56.6 | slash gift. And so my husband and I came up to her house and we drove up this really long |
| 1:05.4 | driveway and she opened this big door and this lovely older woman was holding a baby and just put her right in my arms. |
| 1:12.2 | And it was instant. |
| 1:14.1 | I knew that this little girl was meant to be my daughter. |
| 1:18.0 | Well, adoption is an amazing picture of God's redemptive love that he offers each one of us. |
| 1:24.2 | Dr. Laurel Scheler joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. And we'll be exploring unique ways that you can demonstrate little bit of us. Dr. Laurel Schaler joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, and we'll be |
| 1:28.9 | exploring unique ways that you can demonstrate love to your children, especially those that you |
| 1:34.0 | have through adoption. Welcome to the show. I'm John Fuller. John, this topic's going to be very |
| 1:39.0 | close to your heart with you and Dina adopting a young man. Yeah. And then Gene and I, of course, doing a bit of fostering |
| 1:46.5 | during our foster care years, if you want to call them that. But what an incredible opportunity |
| 1:50.9 | for the Christian community to get engaged. And today we're going to speak to adoption. And of course, |
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