Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast, the show where you hear from amazing and

inspiring wives sharing their struggles, triumphs, and advice for this journey called marriage.

Here's your host, Bella Rose.

Hi there and welcome.

I want to say thank you for joining me today. Today we are talking about hope. Hope in the midst of the difficulty, in the midst of the storm, in the midst of your trial and tribulation. If you are in the midst of that, whether it's about your marriage or maybe it's about something else,

I want to speak to that today.

Because let me just start by saying, we serve a God of hope.

And whatever it is that you are going through your situation, he knows it and he is with you in it.

So let's talk about hope and let's talk about what that means in the midst of the really,

really difficult times.

So first off, let me just say, I'm not really sure who this is for.

If this is for you, if you're listening, maybe you need a little encouragement.

Maybe you need a lot.

Maybe you literally Googled hope in the midst of your storm, or maybe you have been scrolling

through podcast episodes, just hoping something with hope would be in the title so you would have

a little encouragement. And I just want to say, I hear you, I have been there even recently. And that's

why I want to say, if it's not for anyone listening, it's for me, because I need hope,

and I'm in the midst of a storm myself. And I believe that God uses us even in the midst of

our storms. And I believe that even where you are today, God is going to use you and is using

you. And it's an opportunity that he can have to use you in the midst of your

trials and tribulations. The reason I think this is so important is I recently had coffee with a friend

and we're both facing storms in our lives, very different ones. But, you know, in the coffee shop,

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