Todd and

Robin Bush started developing a secret handshake on their honeymoon.

We just had to hold hands all the time.

And so as we would be driving from one city to the next,

we would be holding hands and just being silly and

flirty with each other and we started doing silly handshakes.

All of a sudden, kind of by the end of our honeymen we had this handshake

developed and it became known as our family handshake. As our kids came into the

family and as they were old enough to master it they would kind of be

brought into that family handshake.

It seemed like just a silly game, but many years later,

Todd was in the intensive care unit, unable to speak, and that secret handshake came

to mean so much.

All of a sudden I was aware that as he was moving his hand he was doing our family handshake.

It dawned me. I was like, oh, he's in there. He's letting me know he's in there and it just became something that he was doing

constantly while he was laying in his bed with me. I think a day later my kids

came up and he did it with my daughters.

So it was just one of those things that, wow, you'd started us out at the very beginning with that Lord and you're letting us have it again at the end.

This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcast with Nancy DeMoss Waugamuth,

author of Heaven Rules. For December 16, 2022, I'm Dana Gresch.

The Christmas season is a time of great joy, but in the middle of all the celebrations and holiday

buzz, a lot of people are hurting.

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