Marriage is like a garden that needs to be cultivated.

Today I have a few lessons passed on by a pastor that I think are beneficial and lead to blessings within a marriage.

I include some commentary from my personal life looking back as a single, engaged, and now married woman.

Welcome to the Shepruce Faithful Podcast, episode number 183, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day.

I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hi, everyone, welcome to the podcast.

My name is Lauren, if you haven't joined me before.

I'm so grateful that you're here. I'm thankful for all the continued listeners. name is Lauren. If you haven't joined me before, I'm so grateful that you're here.

I'm thankful for all the continued listeners. Shout out to Annie Learning as we grow on Instagram.

She posted that she went old school back to my first episode on creating the atmosphere of our

homes and even hearing her little clips. I was like, man, I should

probably listen to that again. And it's May, which celebrates five years of doing Sheeproes Faithful

podcasting. Can you even believe it? I can't. It's awesome. And because you listen, I'm still here.

Thank you so much. And thank you to my Patreon supporters who make this possible. I'm so grateful for you.

And really, you do. You fund this project as it is happening. So thank you very much.

My family and I recently traveled to South Dakota for the Fight Laugh Feast rally that was put on by

cross-politic. And we had a blast. We had

six families come from our church. We traveled out to Wyoming, not Wyoming, South Dakota.

We went through Wyoming and had such a great time. We met a lot of fun people. We did all the

fun things like Mount Rushmore and the Presidential Wax Museum, which was a blast. And then reptile gardens,

love that. I, I, there was a Cape Cobra. I was standing there. It was the, the glass cage was at

eye level for me. And I'm, I'm fairly tall. I'm like five, nine and a half. And this, this

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