Highlights from the Show:

• Tara shares about her family—her husband is an attorney and they have twin teens and a toddler. She also shares about when her son was six and was diagnosed with Leukemia.
• God never allows suffering without a purpose. —Tara McClary Reeves
• Both Tara and I chat about our homeschooling journeys, and Tara shares the story of her Balaam’s donkey (Numbers 22:23).
• As moms, we scratch for the normal times. — Tara McClary Reeves
• You don’t have any masks in homeschooling. — Tara McClary Reeves
• Tara shares about her book, how it is based on her personal experience, and where the title “Is Your Dad a Pirate?” came from.
• This book is an encouragement to marriages everywhere. It highlights what the commitment of love really is. — Tara McClary Reeves
• Children need to know what the commitment of marriage really is. — Tara McClary Reeves
• Marriage is a covenant and not to be taken lightly. — Tara McClary Reeves
• Romans 5:3-5
• Tara shares the story of why her dad started wearing a patch instead of his glass eye.
• You’ve never lived until you nearly die. — Tara McClary Reeves
• Tara shares about the stash of love letters that her parents wrote back and forth when her father was over seas.
• 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
• We chat about saving yourself for marriage.
• God blesses obedience. — Tara McClary Reeves
• Tara shares about how her parents love talking to children when they ask about her father’s patch—even though the parents are mortified. Her parents see it as a ministry.
• You are not put on this earth to keep His story from people. —Tara McClary Reeves
• Every heart is a hurting heart. —Tara McClary Reeves
• I ask Tara to share about the way that some people in our society spit at the freedom that her father so passionately fought for.
• There are many who died so that you can still breathe. — Tara McClary Reeves
• Tara shares about her father’s team and the plaque that they gave her father and the importance behind it.
• There is no cookie-cutter God story. —Kristi Clover 
• He never wastes our history. — Tara McClary Reeves
• John 16:33
• If Satan can’t make you bad he makes you busy. — Tara McClary Reeves

Resources:

• SJP Episode 18 with Mary DeMuth
• The post I reference: Three Keys to Enjoying More “Happy” in Your Ever After
• Is Your Dad a Pirate?
• The Pirate and the Firefly
• Reading People
• Point Me to Jesus
• The Knight and the Firefly
• Don’t Tell That to Beasley

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