![]() ![]() Even though we have never met most of you reading this book, we want you to know we love you and care about your future. We’d like to know how we can impact your life for good. We know it’s unusual to be part of a family with nineteen children-one that’s featured on reality TV not for the outrageous things we do or say but for the adventures a family the size of ours can have doing ordinary activities.Īnd we’re curious about you, too. We know how weird we must seem to a lot of you, with our different style of dressing and our conservative Christian beliefs. And we’ve written this book because the volume of letters and e-mails that come to us is more than we can manage individually and because we know how it feels to be curious about something. Whoever you are-whether you’re the girl we met who goes to a Christian school and attends church three times a week but is still struggling inside, or the girl with five tattoos and multiple piercings, the one whose parents sent you to the Christian girls retreat Jana works at, hoping you could be “fixed” there-we’ve written this book to continue the conversation we started with you but couldn’t finish because time ran out and we had to go our separate ways. ![]() Maybe you’ve never met or contacted us at all, but you’ve seen our family’s show on television, and you’re curious. You could hardly bring yourself to believe God could really forgive you. Or perhaps you’re the girl Jinger met while she was ministering at the juvenile detention center. You asked for ideas about how you could be more helpful and encouraging to your teenage daughter as she struggles with relationships involving boys. You might be the mom who approached Jessa after we spoke at a women’s conference somewhere. You smiled and nodded when Jill asked if it would be okay if she said a prayer for your newborn babe. Maybe you’re the single mom whose baby Jill helped deliver as an apprentice midwife. Jana sat with you there and shared your hope that someday you would see your mother again. Maybe you’re that girl we met in the locked ward-we still call it the cage-in the orphanage in Central America. The conversation that may have begun with a letter or an e-mail you wrote to us, or the one that started with a question you asked or a comment you made after we spoke to a group somewhere. We’ve written this book to have the conversation we wish we could have with each of you one-on-one. ![]() “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” saith the Lord, ![]()
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