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Welcome, welcome to Mid Days. I'm Susie Larson.

So honored to have you listening today,

and I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day

That hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

The deep in your understanding of God's Word,

And that heighten your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, we've got a great show plan for you today. Did you know that conflict and marriage can be a doorway to intimacy? That's what my friends, Dr. Greg and Aaron Smalley say, and they're joining me today to give a fresh spin on conflict and marriage and what to do about it. I want to just tell you about them right away. We can jump into the conversation. Both Dr. Greg and Aaron serve in leadership roles that focus on the family. Aaron serves as their strategic spokesperson for marriage ministries, and Greg serves as the vice president for family ministries. We are so honored to have them with us today. They're two of my favorite people on the planet, and this is the one time I'll have you talk at the same time. Welcome, my friends. Well, thank you for, I almost said, welcome to you as well. I don't know why.

We're glad that you're on the show.

Thank you for joining us on your show. I'm so glad to be with you. Thanks for having me.

We always love doing this with you that we feel like we've been friends for so long that, yeah, I don't often think about what I'm

saying. Yeah. We have been friends for a long time. It's not that we feel like we've been friends.

Whenever I think of our conversations, I picture myself on your deck and little Annie bopping around to the music and that's just the context, just doing family life with you guys out on your deck. Little Annie is now 12. She's not so little. Oh, my goodness. Wow. Well, it's such an honor to have you guys with today. And I was telling Greg before the show, I dug a little bit into your book, Fight Your Way to a Better Marriage and just remember to fresh how stink and good it is. And I know we're going to be talking out of a passage from Scripture on managing conflict, but I pulled some quotes out of there that I want you to speak to as well. But let's just start here. How about a verse?

Erin, if you don't mind, do you have a verse on your heart you can share with this? I have a big verse on my heart.

It's Ephesians 320, now to him who was able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,

according to his power that is at work within us.

There's just so many meanings to that today in my life and the client I met with this

morning and a meeting I just came out of just to recognize that the enemy wants us to be

divided and disunified.

But if we hand this stuff over to him, we get the power within us, his power within us.

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