You're listening to the Family Discipleship Podcast, a podcast of Training the Church.

This is Adam Griffin, and I'm here with my co-hosts, Mrs. Cassie Bryant and my wife.

Hello. This is Chelsea Griffin. Hi. Cassie. How do you feel like your childhood prepared you to be the wife that you are today?

Ooh, well, my mom is awesome, so I think that helps a ton. So like you feel like your picture of what a wife should be was based on your mom's example?

I think so. I think she gave, you know, she is an amazing wife. She and my dad's

marriage was hard and they were divorced when I was nine. They got divorced when I was nine. And then she

remarried and my stepdad is godly. And that was like a much more redeemed picture of marriage.

So I think what I learned about being a wife is a, I don't know that I

romanticized it maybe as much because I had a challenging like experience with my parents' marriage.

And so I think it helped me understand like marriage is hard and it's not perfect. And then even

while my mom, like being in my home and my mom's second marriage was a different story and it was so redeemed.

I still, I think because I was older, I still had a much more realistic. That was blending a family,

which is also hard. So all that to say, I think it gave me maybe a more, a less rosy,

lensed view of marriage so that when I did start dating and considering marriage as a possibility for my life,

I wasn't under the skies of it going to be a fairer tale. Right. I was kind of like, okay, marriage is work. You're looking for Prince Charming. Yeah, marriage is work. Yeah. You learned that marriage is work. Marriage is work. And it takes two people to make it work. Yeah. Right. one of you doesn't want to make it work, then it's not, that's what's so vulnerable about it too, you know?

Yeah.

But no, my mom's awesome. Awesome. So I'm grateful for both. That's good. I want to talk about, you know, turn the corner from this is our last episode on marriage of this season, not ever, but for this season we're talking about marriage. And I want to turn us back a little bit

more to our like standard fare of thinking about what we do to disciple our kids in particular.

But as we're kind of reestablishing, marriage is an important part of family discipleship,

also understanding that we're trying to raise kids with a goal in mind. Okay. So some of the goals in mind, like most families I think are struggling just to go, what are we going to have for dinner? What are we doing next week? How are we managing the calendar? Literally my life this morning. Is that right? Like what is the, what are we going to have for dinner? What did you have for dinner? Breakfast for dinner. Oh, perfect. You know. What did you do? Bacon. Oh, eggs? Oh, yeah, from scratch. Oh my goodness. From scratch? Eggs from scratch?

No.

From the coop. It, you know. What did you do? Bacon? No. Eggs? pancakes. Oh, yeah.

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