How Can I Bless You?
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Seeking to bless your spouse without expecting anything in return takes maturity. Sometimes, being a blessing might also need to be having a tough conversation. John, Erin and Greg share how to confront your mate in a loving way. Featuring Mr. Gary Thomas.
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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 | Amazing things can happen when you decide that you want to improve the |
| 0:39.6 | relationship with your spouse by offering a blessing. Now that's not really |
| 0:44.1 | easy. Some of us struggle with let's call it selfishness, but I'm John Fuller |
| 0:49.4 | along with my friends and focus colleagues Aaron Smolley and her husband Greg |
| 0:53.4 | and we're going to help you feel better about all this Aaron. How does it |
| 0:56.6 | feel if Greg is trying to intentionally do things that will bless you that |
| 1:00.4 | will bring joy and happiness to you? I feel so honored and loved and seen and it's |
| 1:06.1 | so interesting. Something so simple just came to my mind as you asked me that |
| 1:09.1 | question. We just returned from South Africa and the very last day we were |
| 1:14.6 | there I was putting my makeup on and I mean this has been a long hard trip and one |
| 1:20.3 | of my eyeliners rolled off the bathroom cabinet and onto the ground underneath |
| 1:25.8 | this vanity in the bathroom at a hotel in a guesthouse. Oh my and my husband came |
| 1:31.5 | in and I expected him to go oh what was it like you know four dollar thing no big |
| 1:36.2 | deal just leave it there. He got down on his hands and knees and crawled |
| 1:40.6 | underneath this vanity in this guesthouse in a foreign country and I was like oh |
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