Hello and welcome to the third season of the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies

to help you deepen your faith, build stronger relationships, and do the most with your life in Christ.

Thank you for joining. Let's get started.

Welcome to the program. Today we get back on track with a short series on marriage. As I told you a couple of weeks ago,

the way to improve to make gains in every marriage can be summed up in six words. If you just

improve in one of these areas, you will see results.

If you're able to work on all of them at the same time, and you can do that,

you may see things happen in your home that you never even imagined.

We started this two weeks ago with two words, the mirror and the triangle. Now, I promised

you I wouldn't use half the episode recapping what we've already done, and I'm going to stand by that.

Briefly, in 30 seconds or less, those were about you evaluating yourself, taking an honest look in the mirror

at who you are and your part in the family. And then as we moved into the triangle, we started looking

at the relationship, you and your spouse, you and this other person. But instead of looking at their

progress, we talked about how you can move toward God. And if you do that and they do that,

the results are off the charts. But even if you're the only one who grows closer to the Lord,

it changes your perspective and helps you see your

mate in a better way. Okay, so we were going to continue that last week, but I got really excited

about the weekend in Florida and talk to you about roots and trees and fruit and all of that.

Thank you for the good feedback on that digression.

And now we're back.

Today's episode will revolve around two more words,

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