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🗓️ 14 November 2024
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You had something wonderful planned for your kids. But, it didn't go according to plan. We've all been there. Heidi St. John tells Jim Daly about a moment that left her in tears after a dinner with her children didn't go well. Then, John and Danny will remind you that a bad moment doesn't make you a terrible parent.
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0:00.0 | Becky was miserable in her marriage. She was ready to give up, but God pricked her heart. |
0:06.6 | I got down on my knees and I said, Lord, I can't do this. I said, God, if I'm going to stay, I cannot leave, |
0:13.4 | but God, you've got to take over because I can't do this anymore. God answered Becky's prayer |
0:18.6 | in an unexpected way, and it transformed her family. |
0:23.4 | I went to the mailbox one day and got my mail, and there on the top of the stack of mail was a magazine |
0:29.4 | from Focus on the Family, and every article in the magazine was about marriage. |
0:34.8 | Talk about amazing. That was a miracle Like that, that was a miracle. |
0:38.5 | I knew it was a miracle. |
0:40.1 | I'm Jim Daly. |
0:42.1 | Through our magazine and podcast, |
0:43.6 | Becky was able to restore and rebuild the relationship |
0:45.0 | with her husband. |
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1:02.2 | It was many, many Christmases ago when we were planning on doing a midnight service, we felt like the kids could handle that. |
1:10.1 | And then one of them started to go totally off the rails. And I just looked at my wife and said, there's no way. |
1:16.5 | Only one. One of the six. But it was significant. This was like super significant. We were all in one car. We hadn't planned for that acting out to be so significant. So we missed the whole midnight mass thing. |
1:30.0 | We went back home. |
1:31.1 | And I felt like I was defeated. |
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