Celebrating Advent as a Family
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
When the Christmas season rolls around, we often place expectations that it will be “the best Christmas ever,” but we end up disappointed, stressed out and exhausted. Josh and Christi Straub urge us all to remember the true meaning of the Advent season, offering ways to sidestep the stress by being fully present with family and reflecting on the joy of the season.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody around us this summer. |
| 0:02.0 | I say everybody, but our eyes were open to it in the last year that a lot of folks in |
| 0:07.3 | their 30s that are our age that we're seeing their marriages fall apart and it's |
| 0:11.8 | scared us. |
| 0:13.0 | After 11 years, Brett's marriage had grown stale. |
| 0:16.2 | He wanted something better for he and his wife. |
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| 0:24.4 | It's on the families helped our marriage from the standpoint of opening our hearts to |
| 0:31.9 | see things from the other's perspective and to make sure that God is centered in our |
| 0:37.5 | marriage. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Jim Dele. |
| 0:40.0 | Thanks to the generosity of friends like you, Brett's marriage is getting better. |
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| 1:04.2 | One Christmas tradition that I had as a kid was to FaceTime my uncle and aunt after we got |
| 1:09.8 | our presents and we would use that as an opportunity to talk to them about what we got and then |
| 1:16.0 | like have other conversations surrounding that. |
| 1:19.0 | It was a really fun time just getting to catch up with my family. |
| 1:22.5 | My favorite Christmas tradition as a kid was getting tamales on Christmas Eve and eating |
| 1:27.5 | it with my family. |
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