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🗓️ 27 February 2025
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"In sickness and in health," is in a lot of wedding vows. How do you keep that promise during a difficult season? Dave and Ashley Willis talk with Jim Daly about health challenges they've walked through. You'll also hear encouragement from John, Erin and Greg that a health issue doesn't have to be the end of your relationship.
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0:00.0 | We've all heard that saying in sickness and in health. It's part of the classic wedding vows. |
0:11.9 | But how do you stay committed when the health part really breaks down and requires a lot of extra effort? |
0:18.4 | I'm John Fuller, along with Greg Smalley and his wife, Erin. They lead the |
0:22.0 | focus marriage team. Aaron, sickness comes into life and makes it challenging. That's kind of where |
0:29.5 | we get to test out that part of the vow in sickness and in health. Well, even just this morning, |
0:35.6 | I'm laughing and Greg is smiling too because I went to see a cardiologist because I found out recently that I'm adopted. |
0:45.0 | My birth father passed away very early from a cardiac event. |
0:49.8 | And so I was like, I'm going to go in. |
0:51.3 | I'm going to do this thing. |
0:52.5 | See what they say. |
0:53.8 | And they did my EKG and it popped up on my phone on the patient portal what it said. |
0:59.5 | And it read something that was abnormal. |
1:02.1 | So I was like, oh my gosh, so I text him, don't hear a word. |
1:05.2 | So, I mean, I could have been having a major cardiac event and he wasn't responding. |
1:10.4 | I was present. |
1:11.1 | I had a meeting and I'm presenting. |
1:13.1 | So I'm not even looking at my phone. |
1:15.2 | Not even for you. |
1:15.7 | Until I look down. |
1:17.2 | Yeah. |
1:17.5 | And so I was like, I think you texted back and said, I'm in a meeting. |
1:21.2 | And I was like, I'm going to get him because just to be a little passive, |
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