FamilyLife Blended®
with Ron L. Deal
181: Beauty in the Broken: A Kintsugi Approach to Blended Family Life
Monday, January 12, 2026
Overwhelmed by blended-family brokenness? Ron Deal and Wynand Jacobs dive into the messy, unpolished reality of blended families in New Zealand. Using Kintsugi as a gospel metaphor, they explore God's power to reform shame into beauty, grief into testimony, and mistakes into stories that shine. It's a masterclass in the divine alchemy of blended family life.
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