When Krystal Smith sneaks into her children’s room to wake them for school, she doesn’t enter on her tip toes – she dances.

“We have a lot of dance parties,” Krystal said. “We start pretty much every day with music that gets the blood flowing and we dance.”

With the music on, her children jump out of bed, and they start their day – together, happy, dancing.

Coming to Buckner Family Pathways was an answer to prayer, “a prayer I didn’t even know I needed to pray,” Krystal said. Krystal is no stranger to difficult times. When she first came to Family Pathways in Dallas two years ago, she was desperate. Her children were 2 and 3 years old when her husband just left them with nothing.

But at Family Pathways, Krystal found a home, redemption and hope. Click here to read her full story.