Remembering the Story of How You Met
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 21 March 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
It's wonderful to reflect on how you and your spouse fell in love. John asks the Smalley's to share their fun love story. Then, you'll hear Jim Daly talk to Matt and Lisa Jacobson about how their first meeting didn't go so well, and why God still used it anyway.
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| 0:00.0 | For decades we've helped Tom's family with parenting, adoption, and what it means to be pro-life. |
| 0:09.0 | It's just typical of the way focus on the family has worked over the years. They just |
| 0:14.5 | provide very practical, publicly based things that help people to make the right |
| 0:20.9 | choice and then support people in ways that really are necessary. |
| 0:25.2 | That's why Tom and his wife give monthly to encourage and equip other families. |
| 0:30.6 | Focus on the families out in the front lines of things that you know are necessary in the culture |
| 0:35.2 | and in the community and we as Christians are called to support God's work in that way. |
| 0:40.7 | It's just a blessing to us to be a part of it. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm Jim Daly. I'm inviting you to give monthly so that together we can save even more families. |
| 0:50.0 | Join our Friends of Focus on the Family team by calling 800 a family or donate at |
| 0:56.0 | Focus on the family.com slash family. There's a good practice that every couple can benefit from or most couples I should say and that is remembering how you and your spouse met and fell in love. |
| 1:14.3 | What was that season like? What were the feelings like back then? I'm John Fuller |
| 1:19.2 | joined by my focus colleagues Greg and Aaron Smalley and Greg for those who haven't heard |
| 1:24.8 | want you just give us a nutshell of how you met and then fell in love with Aaron or |
| 1:29.1 | did you meet and fall in love? It was an arranged marriage so first time I saw her was on our |
| 1:35.8 | wedding day. We were actually great friends all through college. Aaron dated my |
| 1:42.2 | roommate for a number of years and so I just got to know where. |
| 1:45.6 | Yeah, over time, we had jobs together, we were camp counselors during the summer and yet I just think God protected us. |
| 1:56.2 | We just never dated. |
| 1:58.0 | She was dating my roommate or some other guy or I was dating some other girl and so we just we just never dated during college and we both |
| 2:06.8 | graduated and then my dad in his writing partner John Trent, so they had wrote a whole bunch of books together, |
| 2:16.8 | were speaking on a cruise. And so John had just had his youngest daughter and they just needed someone to come along and |
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