Center for Family Care: What Unites Husband and Wife the Most?

June 14, 2024 What’s New This Week Appreciation is often overlooked and/or taken for granted by couples in the midst of the responsibilities of daily life. However, it is a key to genuine connection and unity in marriage. For the next week, practice the discipline of expressing appreciation to your spouse 3 times/daily; then discuss with your spouse the impact of this discipline on your marriage. Elissa Bjeletich Davis of AFR’s Everyday Orthodox joins the Fully Human conversation, sharing her family’s experience of serious, early childhood health challenges (and beyond) and the tragic passing of her infant son to SIDS. Pres. Melanie DiStefano and Elissa particularly focus on how the enemy of our souls can attempt to twist our fears and grief into destructive thoughts and actions, and what to do with misappropriated maternal guilt. LISTEN HERE. Happy Father’s Day! It is a misconception to believe that if we follow Christ, He will deliver us from every unpleasantness and instance of suffering. Instead, the One who experienced extreme vulnerability and hardship, who was a man of sorrows and despised, seeks to fill our suffering with Himself. We will have rainy days, and what feels like perpetual dreariness might lead us to curse our lot in life and question…READ MORE. PresMelanie DiStefano participated in the Metropolis of Pittsburgh’s Y2AM Wonderfully Made day retreat for families with special needs. The retreat with the theme In Her Embrace was held at St Nicholas GO Church in Youngstown, Ohio.   Participants worshipped together, learned stories and hymns about the Theotokos, and enjoyed sensory-friendly, fun-filled activities and fellowship.