Step into the Painting
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In your marriage, it really is the simple moments that can make the most beautiful memories. John, Greg and Erin offer some tips for how to not miss the beauty of the simple times in your marriage. Plus, Jim Daly talks with Chris and Jenni Graebe about some friends who taught them something called, "Step into the painting."
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| 0:00.0 | We weren't planning on it becoming a wonderful memory, but as we were just driving back from |
| 0:10.2 | a week in the mountains, my wife and I suddenly found ourselves windows down, sunroof open, |
| 0:15.8 | seventies collections rolling out through the speakers, and she was leaning out the |
| 0:21.9 | windows just praising God, and we were singing along having this wonderful spontaneous, beautiful |
| 0:28.9 | time together, all unexpected. |
| 0:31.4 | Well, I'm John Fuller, along with Aaron and Greg Smolley, who lead our marriage team, |
| 0:35.8 | and those moments are so deep and rich, I'm sure that you've had something similar, maybe |
| 0:41.8 | not the hippie experience that we were going through, but what's a time when the two of you |
| 0:46.2 | found yourselves unexpectedly delighting in the moment? |
| 0:49.2 | You know, it's funny because I can go all the way back to the very beginning of our relationship |
| 0:54.4 | when Greg was moving from Arizona to Colorado to start graduate school. |
| 1:00.5 | And at the last minute, he's like, hey, just come on, come with me. |
| 1:03.4 | And we had this sweetest time driving this U-Haul trailer with his car behind, just |
| 1:10.6 | laughing and dreaming about our future together. |
| 1:14.6 | And never in a million years did we know that 31 years later, we would still look back |
| 1:19.4 | on that moment. |
| 1:20.6 | Can be something like that, or even as I was reading this last night, we have two of |
| 1:25.8 | our adult children home, and we were watching a movie. |
| 1:30.2 | And I have not laughed harder in the last several months, as I did last night. |
| 1:36.2 | Just watching this dumb movie, and having our daughter Taylor there, and our son, Gerson, |
| 1:42.7 | mocking, whatever we were watching, and we just laughed. |
| 1:46.7 | And I woke up this morning thinking, I don't want to forget that moment, because I needed |
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