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In the scriptures and the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes chapter three, it

says, for everything there is a season and a time for every matter under

heaven. Now whether your marriage is in a difficult time today or maybe a

beautiful one, we want to encourage you to make the most of the season you're

in. I'm John Fuller along with Greg and Aaron Smalley and they're in charge of

our marriage ministry here at Focus on the Family and Aaron, as you work with

other couples, you're a counselor. So you do this day in, day out. How do you

encourage couples to remember that seasons come and seasons go? It's so

important because when you're in the middle of a real difficult, dark, tragic

season, it's it can consume you and you can begin to believe this is never

going to end. The truth is it does and it's even amazing to me week to week

with working with couples. One week will be a really hard session the next week.

They'll come in with all these insights and you know it's a new season in

essence and so what I often will encourage couples to do is to recognize that

marriage is this journey. We're going to have the highs, the lows, the peaks, the

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