FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Where the Pain Is

with Ron Deal | September 14, 2022
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  • Ron Deal

    Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.

For some reason, we sometimes hide our pain and suffering from God. But on a FamilyLife Blended podcast speaker Michele Cushatt said God is in the pain.The place where God connected with His people at the very closest moment was at the foot of the cross,

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Where the Pain Is

With Ron Deal
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September 14, 2022
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Ron: When we’re suffering, why do we distance ourselves from the suffering Savior?

Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.

Ron: You know, for some reason, we sometimes hide our pain and suffering from God but on a FamilyLife Blended podcast, speaker Michele Cushatt said God is in the pain. “The point where God met humanity at the closest place was at the cross. The place where God came and connected with His people at the very closest moment was at the foot of the cross, in other words in the place of suffering. So very literally, God was where the pain is and He still is.”

Michele reminds us that the suffering Savior is acquainted with grief—and he’s not afraid of ours. Whatever it is, bring it to Him. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.

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