Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. I hope everyone is having an okay week.

Today we are not going to dedicate this episode to the coronavirus because I asked a bunch of you on social media.

If that's gotten tiring for you, hearing over and over again about this virus and the policies that are being enacted in order to fight this virus.

And the vast majority of you said, yes, I am tired of it. Please talk about literally anything else.

And so because so many of you asked for more lighthearted content, I am going to give you that, but it's going to be substantive because this isn't a podcast where I just talk about that that things that have no meaning or relevance to your life.

I am going to give you a more personal lighthearted update just about what the Stucky family has been doing during this quarantine.

And then I am going to talk about Tiger King, that crazy documentary that everyone's talking about.

Not just commentary though, but how it represents parts of human nature and teaches us lessons that I think are pertinent especially right now.

And then we are going to very lightly, I would say shallowly answer the question, are we in the end time?

So we're going to do a little Bible matter segment. And then if we have time, we'll talk about some other things I might answer some questions.

But I will give a coronavirus update at the end of this because a lot of you are curious about that. If you're not, like if you have no stomach for coronavirus news, you don't want to hear my thoughts about the things that are going on some of the problems that are cropping up, not just because of the virus, but because of the policies that have to do with the virus and stopping the virus, then you might just want to end it right before I talk about it.

I'll give you a warning and say, no, that's talked about coronavirus. If you don't want to hear that, then don't listen to it. But if you're interested in knowing what's going on and some of my thoughts about that, then you can stick around.

Okay, so starting this off just a personal update about how the Stucky family is doing. We have basically been self quarantining for three or so weeks now.

My husband, his company has been working from home for about three weeks. And so we have been doing this for what seems like an entire year. Like it feels like it should be fall already and like we're gearing up for the holidays.

Now it's been really good. It has allowed us to spend a lot of quality time together. We already spent a lot of time together, especially on the weekends. But now there's a lot of quality time. It reminds me of maternity and paternity leave right after our baby was born last summer, where we were working together and trying to figure out a new normal. Now we are obviously a lot more experienced as parents. And so it's not quite as chaotic as it was when she was first born. And we were just all trying to do it.

We were just all trying to figure out all three of us trying to figure out how to survive. But there are new variables now like both of us are working. He is, he has a different job. I have a lot more flexibility. And so we are working together to make it work. And it's fun. It really is like I will kind of be sad when we have to go back to our normal routine. And he has to leave home. And we are just learning how to not just to work together, but also relate to one another.

And you think, okay, you've been living together as long as you have been married and you've been married for almost five years. Shouldn't you know how to relate to one another? Yes. But anyone who has been married also knows that it is a continual learning process to figure out how to best love and serve and respect the other person and communicate to the other person effectively.

And for all of the inconveniences and the struggles and the burdens that come with this time that has been a silver lining that we have. And I talked about this on Monday. If you haven't listened to Monday's episode, go listen to that. It's 10 ways to make sure that this quarantine time counts so that we don't look back and say why I wasted all of that time.

Well, one of the ways that I think that time is being redeemed, not just for us, but hopefully for a lot of couples, is that we are learning how to be even quicker to forgive, to be slow to speak, to be very slow, to become angry, quick to listen, quick to extend grace, to be less, less critical ourselves to try to give the benefit of the doubt. And we fail at that every day, quarantine or not.

But I think that we have realized an important lesson during all of this that if you are in close quarters with someone continually, something that makes that even harder is a held grudge, is resentment, is bitterness, is constant nagging and criticism and the feeling that you can't ever do anything right.

And so we have, by the grace of God, tried our best to extend as much grace as we can to the other one and realized that we are both trying to do the very best we can to take care of our family and to weather these times and to trust God.

My husband, thank goodness, something that has made this a lot better is that he is an amazing cook. He's an amazing cook. So over the weekend, he grilled, I think it smoked. For some reason, I'm supposed to say smoked, he told me.

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