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Coming up on marriage today with Jimmy and Karen.

When I say depending on God, I'm not talking about an ethereal thing or just saying it I'm talking about when you're hurt when you're mad when you're empty

When you're frustrated when when you feel lonely when all those things you turn to God you don't turn on your spouse you don't turn to

something else you turn to God and you trust him with that need in your life. In this session I want I want to talk to you about a dynamic that's very common in relationships.

It's a sprint mentality versus a marathon mentality.

When we get married, when we meet each other, we typically are in a sprint mode rather than a

marathon mode.

Marriage is a marathon.

My mom and dad married for 61 years.

You can't sprint that long.

70 pounds ago and 50 years ago I used to run track.

And so, you know, when I ran track, I mean,

the sprinters, you could go quick for a short distance, but the marathoners had a completely different mentality.

And so many people today get married in a sprint, and what they find is that everything's passionate, everything's wonderful,

everything's incredible, right before it crashes.

But the marathon mentality says,

it's not what we can make happen,

it's what we can keep happening. What can we keep happening

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