Making Big Decisions in Faith Together
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
When facing a big decision, it's critical for you and your spouse to work out an agreement. But how do you get there? Greg and Erin Smalley chat with John Fuller about a time they've had to make a big transition in their relationship. Plus, Jim Daly talks to Bill and Pam Farrel on when they had to trust God with one of Pam's career dreams.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, there are times in your marriage when you and your spouse are going to have some |
| 0:09.0 | big decisions to make. |
| 0:10.6 | It might be a purchase, it might be a family member, it might be something else. |
| 0:15.9 | When that happens, how do you get on the same page knowing that you're probably quite |
| 0:20.5 | different in terms of how you're processing everything? |
| 0:23.4 | I'm John Fuller, joined by my focus colleagues, Aaron and Greg Smolley and Greg. |
| 0:27.8 | Think of a time when you and Aaron had to kind of come together because there was a big |
| 0:32.4 | decision. |
| 0:33.4 | How did that play out? |
| 0:34.4 | Yeah, and I think instantly about coming here to focus on the family almost 12 years |
| 0:40.3 | ago, and Aaron and I had just adopted our youngest daughter, Annie, from China. |
| 0:47.4 | We just, we loved the area that we were living in, had a great job, all that, and then I randomly |
| 0:54.4 | run into Jim daily, focus president, Jim daily, yeah, at the airport and you guys hadn't |
| 1:00.5 | planned this. |
| 1:01.5 | You weren't on the radar. |
| 1:02.7 | No, I just walked right up and I said, hey, Jim, and he gave me that look, like if you've |
| 1:09.0 | ever walked up to a group of people who were talking about you and they kind of look |
| 1:13.6 | at you and go, whoa, it was that look and Jim in a couple of few colleagues, I don't think |
| 1:19.7 | John, you were there, but some other focus colleagues were talking about me and Aaron. |
| 1:24.0 | What they were talking about is Jim had just come from our board meeting and really wanted |
| 1:29.8 | to find a couple to help lead the marriage efforts here at focus. |
| 1:35.0 | The next day, Jim invites us over just to have this conversation and we just really felt |
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