What do you do when you're not where you want to be or as far along as you want to be in your marriage?

Or when you yourself wrestle with not being where you want to be in career, communication, or personal challenges while seeking unity in your marriage?

I'm Ruth Joe Simons and this is the Grace Lace

podcast. I'm so happy to be joined by my favorite pastor, teacher, and Grace Lace chief

encouragement officer, my husband, Troy Simons. Troy is wise and godly and there's a reason why I

dedicated this book to him. So grab a cup of

coffee and maybe your spouse and join Troy and me for a conversation about now and not yet

in the context of marriage. And what a treat it is to have you, Troy, in the studio on the Gracely's podcast.

It is like old times when you and I were podcasting together.

Yeah.

It's fun to have you.

Good to be here.

Well, we are going to get personal today.

Oh, what?

I know.

Because I think it serves our listeners when we get real and we're just honest about what it looks like to work on a marriage.

We are going on 26 years of this.

And I dedicated this now and not yet book to you.

And let's just read that real quick.

Let me read this to you.

Because this whole season is in support of now and not yet pressing in when you're

waiting, wanting, and restless for more, having conversations that really draw out what we do

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