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.

Hey and welcome. Thank you so much for joining. This is Bella. I am glad you're here.

If you are listening to me around the same time that this is being released, it is the first week of December.

I guess we're closing in. This is more like the second week of December,

which means that we're getting towards Christmas soon and then the new year. I love Christmas for a lot of reasons, but probably more than Christmas. I love the new year. I think it's because

it's this wonderful opportunity to reflect and to wrestle

with this idea of life. For all of us, life is moving closer towards the final moments and then the

end. And I think the new year gives you a really good opportunity as things

kind of slow down. People get in a different zone. If you're at work, probably clients are

being a little more lax on projects. And you're just able to kind of get to a place where you can sit back and

reflect a little bit. Certainly, you know, Christmas can be its own level of craziness, but if

you realize that the new year kind of gives you that space, I would encourage you to take it to think,

what is your life amounting to right now?

You know, whenever there's a funeral, you really have the opportunity to reflect and realize

what's going on.

And life kind of goes into focus when you start to see that it's so short and so

easy to be taken at any moment.

I've actually been really convicted on this point for various reasons, but essentially there was a

catalyst in my life recently that impacted the way I parent significantly. And it was basically

one conversation has just kind of revolutionized the way that I see my parenting. And previous to that,

I really could have articulated an argument as to why I do the things the way that I do. And yet one

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