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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Marriage is Like Maintaining a Garden

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Just like a garden needs water, your marriage needs simple acts of love in order to thrive. John, Erin and Greg explain how they've seen little things help their marriages. They'll also offer some encouragement to couples who are struggling to love each other. Featuring Dr. Marcus Warner and Pastor Chris Coursey.

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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.

0:35.3

You know, every garden needs water to really make the plants grow and your

0:40.0

marriage needs a lot of maintenance and a lot of good stuff to be healthy. When

0:45.0

you work to cultivate your relationship, the chances of success are much

0:49.4

greater, just like that garden that you tend to. I'm John Fuller in the studio

0:53.8

with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron and they have years of counseling

0:58.4

couples. They always do a great job of sharing from their own journeys and

1:02.0

Greg, let's just kick off with a short example from you about maybe a small

1:06.7

act of love that perhaps has helped you cultivate your relationship with Aaron.

1:11.4

Yeah, I love it when Aaron expresses gratitude for something that I've done.

1:16.0

Disassembly. Hey, notice that you had the trash out this morning on time. I did

1:20.6

notice that you had the trash out this morning.

1:22.8

Checking. But when she when she does, I love that. But also also when she just

1:28.8

brings little gifts. I'm not a big gift person, but like today before our

1:34.3

recording session here, she called and said, Hey, I'm pulling through Starbucks.

1:38.9

Can I get you anything? And just that that simple little, you know, just,

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