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Well, we're coming off a holiday weekend, Memorial Day weekend, and we want to dedicate this show to the special challenges that military families face as you parent your kids.

I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up the focus on the family parenting team.

And we've got Heather Gray Blaylock, and she shares a very difficult challenge she experienced as a military wife and mom.

I'm going to get right back to the story, though, coming home on the 11th.

Describe that for us the heart-wrenching nature of telling your kids.

Yeah, that was not a fun thing.

I remember being on the airplane on the way back and just spending the whole time in prayer

and just begging God to somehow take that away from me.

But knowing at the same time that I could be the only one to do it and I wouldn't let anybody

else do it. But the Lord is so good and gracious. And anything he asks you to go through,

he's going to equip you to do. And so one of the ways that he paved the way for me was that

when David deployed, each kid gave him a little toy of theirs to hold

on to. And it's kind of funny. It was in one of the little toilet wipes boxes, you know, the hard

boxes. And so every time he would FaceTime with the kids, he would pull this box out and like

show the little pig and show the little smurf and, you know, and kind of interact with the kids.

And the idea was that he um sorry this one

gets to me a little bit that he would take care of those things and then bring them back to them

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