When I was growing up, my most cherished memories include sitting around the table with my family after dinner, swapping stories about our day and reminiscing over favorite times. Sometimes we’d sit for an hour or more, not wanting our conversation to end (or to do the dishes!). Pull up a chair and enjoy browsing through my blog posts around my virtual kitchen table.
Connect with me by leaving a comment, inviting me to speak at your next event or working with me one-on-one. My prayer for you is to be encouraged and inspired by the words I share here, without even having to help with the dishes.
Without realizing it, we had allowed good and godly activities to pervade our time together as a couple, leaving us vulnerable and disconnected. Although we had prayed for our marriage and family over the years, we began to pray more specifically. We asked God for wisdom and discernment in guarding...
We looked like a picture-perfect family. My husband had a respectable job. I was a stay-at-home mom of twins. We lived in a cute house, drove two old, but paid-for, cars, and were proud pet owners of a somewhat obedient black lab. We took family vacations. We were leaders in...
“You’ve lost the baby,” the doctor said. Not again, I thought as tears filled my eyes. At my follow-up appointment a week later, my doctor told me, “We wait until after your third miscarriage before recommending further assessment.”
In case you haven't heard, Building Strong Homes is having a retreat at the Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove in Asheville, N.C.! Since you are a member of my faithful community through email, I wanted to personally extend an invitation. We have been working hard to put together...
Building Strong Homes presents The Building Strong Homes LIVE Hometown Event We Belong Together Saturday, May 13 from 5:30-9 pm at The Roper Farm in Fountain Inn Building Strong Homes is going live again! Join us for an intimate gathering of delicious food, fun, fellowship, praise and worship, a live...
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Catch the latest episode of Building Strong Homes: Blueprints to Strengthen Your Faith & Family.
Welcome to Building Strong Homes, the podcast where faith meets family in the most practical and powerful ways. I’m your host, Carol Roper, wife, mom and former home designer who used to spend my days drafting floor plans and designing details, but now I help wives and moms design lives based on God’s word.
This podcast is for women who want more than survival mode. You want clarity. You want purpose. You want a home that stands strong—not just physically, but spiritually. Inside each episode, you’ll find practical tools that include:
*How to strengthen your marriage and motherhood through biblical truth
*Candid conversations with men and women who’ve faced real challenges and found God’s grace
*Encouragement to stand firm, even when culture says otherwise
*Actionable ways to bless your home and influence your community
If you’ve ever wondered how your ordinary days could build something extraordinary, you’re in the right place. Discover biblical blueprints for shaping a legacy that reflects God’s design—one brick of faith at a time.
Some stories don’t just inspire you — they reroute your whole calling.
This summer, I’m bringing back one of the episodes that changed everything for me. If you listened to Fear Is a Liar back in June, you remember the couple whose testimony stopped me from shutting this podcast down altogether. When I was ready to pack up the mic and call it quits, their story reminded me why Building Strong Homes exists in the first place — so real people can share real God stories that strengthen all of us.
Today we’re revisiting Glen and Kelly Daigle’s journey — a story that proves God can take the darkest diagnoses, the deepest depressions, and the most tangled pasts and build something stronger, steadier, and more joy‑filled than we ever imagined.
You wouldn’t think a breast cancer diagnosis would lead a couple into a marriage that was more joyful than they could have ever imagined, but that’s what happened with Glen and Kelly Daigle. They had both been married before they met and were ready for a fresh start, having each gone through difficulties with drugs and alcohol. Glen had recently finished a self-admitted time in rehab for alcohol addiction and Kelly was looking for a man who’d been married, didn’t have children and loved the Lord. Since Glen met all three requirements they dated and eventually married. But everything wasn’t all rainbows and hearts. Glen spiraled into such a deep depression Kelly says many days she prayed she wouldn’t come home to find that her husband had committed suicide. After Glen found help from counseling their lives were okay, but still not great. Neither of them had a strong relationship with God, they just did the bare minimum. Until Kelly’s breast cancer diagnosis. Something changed in both of them as they realized the only thing they had to hold on to was Jesus, and they weren’t letting Him go.
There are so many ways that God showed up in each of their journeys that there’s no denying the Hound of Heaven was pursuing them from the very beginning. If you feel like you’ve messed up so badly that there’s no promise of hope in your life anymore, this episode is for you.
Song that made such an impact on Glen: At This Point in My Life by Tracy Chapman
Episode mention in this podcast Fear is a Liar
Watch on YouTube No One is Too Far Gone for God to Use with Glen and Kelly Daigle
Take the quiz, “What Type of Home Are You Building?”, because so many women feel the tension in their home but can’t quite name what’s causing it. This quiz does that for you. It pinpoints the patterns shaping your home and gives you a clear next step toward the kind of home you want to build. If you’ve been feeling stuck, this will help you get unstuck.
What if one weekend could breathe life back into the parts of you that feel worn thin? This October, I’m hosting The Flourish Retreat in beautiful Charleston, South Carolina — and I want you to come with me. If you’re a wife or mom who’s been pouring out for everyone else, this is your invitation to step away, exhale, and let God pour back into you. Find out more at the link.
A space for women seeking godly families, real conversations, and encouragement to grow in faith and strengthen their home.
“A wise woman builds her house, while a foolish woman tears hers down by her own efforts.” ~ Proverbs 14:1 TLB
