When his wife became pregnant with their fourth child Greg panicked, but a focus on the family counselor put everything into perspective.

He said, the first thing you need to realize if kids are a blessing, or all of the

blessing, that their gifts from God, and the second thing you said was, kids value

relationships, not stuff. Greg and his wife found the encouragement they needed and today they have a happy thriving family of seven children.

We have been really influenced by the culture and by just the kind of overall negativity about kids and to hear from someone, you know,

just godly truth that kids are special, that they're wanted and that they're a blessing was huge to us.

I'm Jim Daly and we love kids.

Let's work together to give more families hope, like Greg's.

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Every couple has a moment when you realize your marriage. slash marriage

is not perfect.

now most recently for me that was just the other day we were driving back from

Denver and we got into an argument about a restaurant. I mean it was a stupid

thing but it was an obvious a very painful reminder that we are not a perfectly

married couple. I guess we need another 35 years to get there.

I'm John Fuller, along with my focus colleagues and friends, Greg and Aaron Smalley, and Greg, it's,

I mean it really is dangerous.

There are some couples that do pretend that they're perfect. Why is that a problem?

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