My Life is Busy! Please Help!
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
When your schedule is full, it's hard to make time for your spouse. John Fuller talks with Erin Smalley about ways each of them has struggled with overcrowding their schedules in their marriages. Then, Jim Daly and Gary Thomas discuss why busyness isn't good for your relationship. They'll also share about how to hear from God, when making decisions in your marriage.
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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. |
| 0:35.8 | When I'm running from one thing to the next, my wife calls it business mode. It is |
| 0:40.6 | really hard to take a phone call from her because she wants to talk or it's |
| 0:45.1 | really hard for me to slow down and pay attention to what she wants or for me |
| 0:49.3 | to communicate something because I'm in top line level move. Go. I just have |
| 0:54.0 | to slow down because that business can really be toxic for our communication. |
| 0:58.8 | I'm John Fuller joined by Greg Smalley who's actually not here today. So I'm |
| 1:03.8 | joined by Aaron Smalley together. Greg and Aaron lead the marriage team here at |
| 1:08.7 | Focus on the Family and Aaron you've seen business you are so busy by the way |
| 1:13.5 | can I just say you're kind of the poster child for what we're talking about |
| 1:16.4 | here because you're still mom and a daughter who's in the home just got done not |
| 1:22.7 | too long ago with a wedding for one of your kids. You are in a PhD program. You |
| 1:28.6 | have a private practice and you work here at Focus. Are you busy? Is business |
| 1:33.2 | toxic for your relationship? Bizziness is never an issue in our marriage or in |
| 1:37.5 | my personal life. It is amazing to me. People will often say, gosh, how do you |
| 1:41.6 | do it? I'm like, I don't know. God creates minutes in my day because I am just |
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