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I feel like there's this pressure in the church right now to be joyful all the time.

Be happy, be joyful.

Okay, joy is a fruit of the spirit.

Yes, we are.

That's part of living in Christ.

Right.

But if we are skipping over and pushing down all the things that are making us not feel joyful,

then that's not a real joy.

That's just faking it.

Welcome to Family Life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Dave Wilson.

And I'm Ann Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifetay.com.

This is Family Life Today.

Okay, so we have one more day with Alicia Michelle talking about her book, Emotional Confidence.

And just the title, Three Simple Steps to Manage Emotions with Science and Scripture.

And we get to play all that to marriage and parenting and even parenting adult kids.

So you don't want to miss this one.

Let's go.

I think in marriage when you have disappointments, there does come a point where God and God's had to bring me to this point of like, so you've committed to this person for the

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