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Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In this month's episode of the connecting podcast, Paul Tripp and Shelby Abbott welcome a very special guest, Paul's wife, Luella, as she and Paul

reflect on 50 years of marriage together.

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Now here's Luella Tripp on the Connecting podcast.

Thank you. Now here's Luella Trip on the Connecting Podcast. So, Shelby, how was your week?

My week was fairly good.

We're getting ready for back to school.

So kids are enjoying their last times here at home, playing in the pool.

And it's getting ready we'll see what what the fall brings whether or not it's going to be very full or very similar to the last 18 months it's an

unknown yeah we're heading out the 50th of September to California again to be with our

sons and our granddaughters and we don't know what that's going to be like either. It's,

it's just an amazing thing. It does, it does, it does, it is humbling. It reminds you that how little control you actually have over your life.

This pandemic has had such a power to alter so many things in our lives and in the world.

And I just heard of somebody whose husband is a teacher, and they got four days in,

and there was a COVID outbreak, and they shut down the school, and they don't know what they're going to do next

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