Recently, I had a couple of back-to-back business trips, and in the middle of that, I kind

of came in like a hurricane, just came into the house, dropped stuff, reset, repacked,

looked at mail, did some things, and my dear wife, Deena, was there waiting for me and

just said, I'm here for you, I'm going to do this, I'll do that, what else can I do

for you? This is a fast and busy time. How can I help? I so appreciated that, I so

needed that, and that demonstrated her commitment to me. I'm John Fuller, along with Greg and

Erin Smolley, who lead the marriage department here at this ministry, and Greg, there are ways

I'm sure that you can relate to that illustration I just shared. Oh, completely, and as you

were talking, my mind drifted back to when I was getting my doctorate from Biola University,

and just thinking about all the ways that Erin was with me, as you described, just

the way that she leaned in, rather that was taking care of our, at the time, our newborn

infant, daughter Taylor, and giving me time to study. She was working as a labor and delivery

nurse, so here, full-time mom, full-time labor and delivery nurse, just so that I could

focus in on my studies and not have to also then work full-time. That was huge.

Yeah, I mean, Erin helped Ed did papers, and just there's so many ways that she showed

up, that demonstrated that she was with me, that we were a team, that she was present, and

it wasn't all simple and easy. I mean, there were really hard moments within that season

of a graduate school, but Erin, I so appreciated how you helped really for me make that dream come true.

And we were in it together, and that's what I've seen over the seasons, whether it was going back

to school, moving a new job, that we just have had the mentality that we're a team, and we would work

through the decision together on the front side, so on the back side, when it got hard, we were

in it together, we were unified, and that makes such a difference. It does, and let's go ahead and

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