Whether it's our careers or whether it's our personal challenges or financial challenges or parenting challenges or life challenges, whatever it is, one of the greatest gifts is to have someone in your life that respects your worth and says,

I believe in you. I know this is challenge. I know this is different, but I believe God is going to see you through this season,

and I'm right here beside you every step of the way. Welcome to Family Life Today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

You can find us at FamilyLife Today.

This is Family life today. So right now I'm picturing us laying on our lounge chairs on the upper deck of the

love like you mean at Marriage Cruz a few months back. That was my favorite part of the cruise.

The wind blowing through my hair.

Well, I guess I don't have hair.

That was the favorite part?

Absolutely.

I mean, it was sort of a dream come true, you know, to sort of be on vacation in the sun in the

Caribbean, but also focusing on our marriage.

Yeah. And if that sounds good to you, let us invite you to the next love like you mean it, marriage get

away. Yeah, and you can sign up at familylife.com and you should sign up right now because there's a special deal going on and you don't want to miss that deal.

Who doesn't want to be on a marriage cruise?

Yeah, and I'm not even a cruise guy. I wouldn't like pick a boat as my favorite vacation, but this is different.

It is because it's pleasure with purpose. It's cruise with a meaning behind it, and it's really going to enhance your marriage.

And we're going to give you an example of some of the talks that you might hear.

Today we're going to listen to Brian and Stephanie Carter who actually gave a talk on the love like you mean at marriage cruise.

Yeah, it was the second night on our cruise and if you don't know Brian Carter you should he's uh he's on the family life board

of directors he's also a pastor for several decades down in Dallas of Concord

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