If you have been there and I have--you know about the<br >spasms of despair that wrench a kid whose home is "broken." It<br >doesn t matter that other kids have the same problem: you know<br >only the fear and the gnawing guilt that mavbe you are the reason<br >Morn and Dad fight and the family isn t together. You cry when<br >nobody is looking， and you learn to tell the difference between the<br >"God bless you" types and the one person who cares enough--and<br >knows enough to pull you to safety.<br > One Home at a Time is a salvage vessel. It escorts the reader<br >through a no-nonsense tour of the slums of discordant and dis-<br >jointed families. It touches the taproot of decay m our country--the<br >most prosperous and blessed nation in the world s history. Ringing<br >with authenticity， it calls divorce a national disaster， a killer of cul-<br >ture; then it leads the way to higher ground.<br > Dennis Rainey left my classroom more than two decades ago， a<br >restless young reconnaissance man determined to find a formula for<br >slowing the failure rate in American homes. He gave voice to<br >FamilyLife， focusing intently on preventive care for married couples.<br >Now this firebrand has declared war on the dissolution of home life.<br >He has nailed his theses to America s front door and called for a<br >Family Reformation.<br > A mystery stow mixed with a construction kit. these pages build a<br >framework for fulfillment in living. When disapp i~ents undo our<br >dreams， a whole new o~n!.ty is- waiting. Like the thaw in C. S.<br >Lewis s Narnia， peace of mind melts our frustrations， even though we<br >have been groping m the dark wardrobe of dysfunctional home life.<br > The Family Reformation happens. Dennis says， when life and<br >truth collide. His truth streams from a biblical base: he explains that<br >God s method has no factory of mass production. He touches one<br >person， one family， one home at a time. There is no substitute for<br >placing a clean person in a corrupt sooety and effecting change.<br >