When Lives Collide: Navigating Remarriage and Stepfamily (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 28 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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In this broadcast, Sabrina Beasley McDonald will help couples and single adults prepare for remarriage and the formation of a stepfamily. She also talks about the unique challenges that couples face in remarriages and stepfamilies face. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | Today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we'll explore the unique challenges and |
| 0:05.2 | joys that couples experience in a remarriage and step family situation. |
| 0:10.1 | Our wedding, of course we were really looking forward to it and excited about saying goodbye to our single days and, you know, moving forward and happy. |
| 0:20.0 | And I remember walking in, the door, the doors opened to the sanctuary. |
| 0:25.0 | Of course I'm expecting, you know, I did this 10 years earlier with someone else. |
| 0:30.0 | It was a, you know, beautiful day, wonderful celebration. |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah, joyful, people smiling. |
| 0:35.9 | And I walk in the door and immediately I'm greeted |
| 0:38.8 | with snipples and sadness and, you know, |
| 0:41.8 | you can hear people ruffling their their tissue and crying and you know |
| 0:47.2 | sniffing and looking over at different places you see shoulder shaking I mean you're |
| 0:51.6 | not just talking about just a polite cry you know |
| 0:53.8 | talking about really really weeping. |
| 0:57.8 | Sabrina McDonald's joined us last time to describe her own journey through |
| 1:01.6 | remarriage and step family and she's back with us again today. |
| 1:05.4 | Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:10.0 | John we had such a tender and thoughtful conversation last time with Sabrina, exploring how blended families often don't blend very well. |
| 1:18.4 | And we do touch on this subject from time to time, |
| 1:21.6 | because there are a lot of people for all kinds of reasons that end up in a blended family. |
| 1:26.6 | It could be the death of a spouse, a death of both spouse, divorce, whatever it might be. |
| 1:31.0 | And you know, focus, we feel we need to help equip families where they're at so as they move forward they could do the best job they can do in the Lord to be the family they want to be. |
| 1:41.0 | And we're going to come back to this conversation today. If you missed |
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