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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Can We Start Over?

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

When you're in the middle of an argument with your spouse, there's tremendous value in learning to pause and start over. John and the Smalley's discuss how taking a moment to stop can help resolve an argument in your marriage. You'll also hear Jim Daly chat with Danny Ray and Kimberly Thompson, as they address ways they've learned to start over in the midst of conflict.

 

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.3

today.

0:35.8

When you're watching a movie, if you come across a scene you don't understand,

0:39.3

you might be like me, you might push pause and then get three wine button a

0:43.3

couple of times and just follow that again because it didn't quite make sense.

0:48.1

In the same way, if you're having an argument with your spouse, it's probably

0:52.2

a good idea to press pause and go back and figure out where the misunderstanding

0:57.2

took place. I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley who lead our

1:01.4

marriage team here. And we're going to hear now a conversation that focus

1:05.3

president Jim Daley had with Kimberly and Danny Ray Thompson. They talked with

1:09.9

Jim about a marriage principle that they've learned based on something that

1:13.4

Danny Ray does as a magician.

1:15.6

Danny, let me ask you. I think I've seen at least versions of this. One of the

1:20.4

illusions that you perform is an elaborate underwater escape. Describe what's

1:26.4

involved and how you use that to teach people about life and God and marriage.

1:31.6

Yeah. So for a number of years, I did underwater escapes and there's, you know,

1:37.7

when you're going underwater, you know, the first thing I would say before I

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