Doing Whatever it Takes
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
At some point in your marriage, you'll make a mistake or handle a situation poorly. Danny Ray and Kimberly Thompson share a funny story with Jim Daly about a time something went awry in their marriage. Erin Smalley and John Fuller will also give some tips for how to forgive yourself, even after you make a mistake.
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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 | At some point sooner or later you're going to make a mistake in your marriage or |
| 0:39.8 | you're going to handle a situation poorly which is a mistake. How are you going |
| 0:43.5 | to learn from that kind of an experience when when you hit that moment? What |
| 0:47.3 | actually counts? I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smolley. They |
| 0:51.1 | lead the marriage team here at Focus on the Family and Focus President Jim |
| 0:55.4 | Daley talked with Danny Ray and Kimberly Thompson. There are a couple. Danny is |
| 0:59.6 | a professional magician and they told a really funny story about a time that he |
| 1:03.2 | got upset about a Christmas tree and made a mistake. You know in the light |
| 1:07.5 | hard inside you had a Christmas tree I think a crooked Christmas tree. What |
| 1:12.2 | was yeah we pulled out all the good stories. So what happened with the crooked |
| 1:16.5 | Christmas tree? So wow the things I should be I don't need to write about okay |
| 1:23.2 | so you wrote it. My wife and I were about to head down to San Diego and we |
| 1:32.0 | have like five minutes and one of her things is like you know that Christmas |
| 1:35.1 | tree. It's got to be straight that angel up top. It's got to be perfect. Are you |
| 1:38.6 | a sister? Man you guys came from the same parents. Now it's a different deal |
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