When Your Love Isn’t Enough
Focus on Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
No matter how hard you try as a parent, there will be times you fall short. Danny and John discuss the sobering realization that your love by itself isn't enough to fulfill every part of your child's heart. Then, Jim Daly talks with Pam Farrel and PeggySue Wells about why God's love will be more than enough to sustain your kids.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, sometimes my love for my child isn't quite adequate, and I have to kind of release |
| 0:09.1 | them to experience God's bigger love, his perfect love. |
| 0:13.1 | I'm John Fuller, joined by the head of our parenting team, Dr. Danny Wirta. |
| 0:17.6 | Danny, sometimes my love isn't enough for my child. And we all feel that at some point in time. |
| 0:25.5 | What do we do when we hit that realization? Well, it's especially true for single moms. They're trying to |
| 0:30.4 | fulfill that role of a dad and a mom and usually in the midst of a lot of busyness and trying to show that love. |
| 0:40.7 | But love in itself is just a complex topic, John. |
| 0:45.1 | And we could get into complexities. |
| 0:47.0 | But one thing with teens and just kids in general, developmentally, they're not only |
| 0:52.6 | desiring love from their parents, they're desiring love from |
| 0:56.7 | their peers. They want to know, do other people actually love me? Or is it just my family? |
| 1:02.7 | Because they kind of have to. Yes. And then the people that have options. Right. And the people |
| 1:08.7 | that have options, do they love me? And what is it that they love about me? And then the other one is learning to accept that love from God and what that looks like from a God that you can't talk with audibly. And as you pray and as you listen, as you read his word, you learn about his love and his sacrifice |
| 1:28.5 | and understanding that it's quite a process that a child goes through from zero to 18, |
| 1:37.1 | learning in their mind mentally, in their emotions, and in their spirit, what it means to be |
| 1:42.7 | loved by God, what it means to be loved by family, and what it means to be loved by God, what it means to be |
| 1:44.9 | loved by a family, and what it means to be loved by their friends. And yeah, love from parents |
| 1:51.5 | most of the time is not enough, but it is essential. Yeah. Yeah. And it leads to understanding |
| 1:56.8 | God's love. And so let's go ahead and unpack this topic a little bit further with a conversation |
| 2:02.8 | from Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. Jim spoke with Pam Farrell and Peggy Sue Wells about how |
| 2:09.2 | single parents in particular can help their child find peace in God's love. Peggy Sue, what wise advice |
| 2:16.6 | did your mentor give you about the impossibility of loving |
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