Hey friends, welcome to the Rhythms for Life Podcast where each week we talk about four rhythms

that help you reduce stress and anxiety and take charge of your emotional health. Rest,

restore, connect, create. These ideas come from Rebecca's best-selling book,

Rhythms of Renewal, trading stress and anxiety for a life of peace and purpose. So grab your

copy, invite your friends and let's live in rhythm. Welcome back, I'm Rebecca. I'm Gabe and

it's March. I know. I'm so thankful for spring. I can't believe it. Fines of spring. It's awesome

and you know today we're going to jump in here quick because Rebecca and I are so convicted

about marriages starting first with hours and the need to constantly be working, constantly

be nurturing. We're 23 years in. And just because you've been married 23 years doesn't mean there's

not continued challenges, right? Right. I have actually several friends who are over 20 years in

marriage and they're calling it quits. And it's very sobering. This last year in particular,

I think COVID and being home and just things that you used to be able to avoid with coping mechanisms

or distraction, those came front and center for a lot of couples and marriages are just completely

under fire. I am the spirit of the age is telling everybody, just be yourself, do what's right for

you. It doesn't necessarily point us back to one another and doing the hard work. Yeah,

of covenant marriage. And for those who aren't Christians, I get it like it's a commitment,

maybe a contract, you know, whatever it is. But for those that are inside of the Christian faith,

we view this as a covenant for life. And so the enemy wants to attack that. And so today we want

to attack back. Yeah. And part of I think the idea of a covenant, you can have that in your

in your like logic brain. But if your heart is broken or wounded in, you guys are on a cycle

that we'll talk about with Emerson, where you just can't you cannot find each other back. You can't

find your way back. You can't hear each other. You're seeing the worst in each other. You almost

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