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slash impossible. Well, Easter is here and we have an imminently practical and timely episode for you. Today, I'm John Fuller,

along with Dr. Danny Werta, and we're going to turn to a clip featuring Dr. Josh Straub and his wife,

Christy. They spoke with Focus on the Family President Jim Daly about the emotions associated with

Easter. So when you look at connecting the Easter story

for them to be emotionally healthy, how does that work? Yeah, well, one of the things we wanted to do was,

I mean, we wanted to take the Easter story and we wanted to look at what was actually happening,

right? You know, researchers show that, you know, thinking, feeling, and relating at the same time is where

true growth happens. So in other words, if I'm just sitting in a classroom and I'm hearing somebody

lecture, there's a cognitive thing going on. But if there's not great stories or I'm not

emotionally engaged, I'm not as likely to remember what's being taught. That's like a speaker.

An effective speaker is going to share stories.

They're going to engage your emotion. And there's thinking, feeling. And then there's also relating.

I'm entering into a relationship. This is why therapy is so effective is because it, you know, or at

least good, healthy relationships, small groups where you're doing life with people in your church,

because there's relational things happening.

And so what we really wanted to do was give parents another tool to be able to take their children through the devotion of Easter, to teach them the truths of Scripture, but then to also

help their children enter into that story. And think about what is it that the characters or the people during that week,

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