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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

The Small Things That Add Up

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Small decisions that add up over time can lead to big results. The same principle applies to the investments you make in your marriage. John, Greg and Erin share how you can get started with making little changes to better your relationship. Featuring Mr. Gary Thomas.


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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.3

today.

0:35.6

It's probably tempting for all of us to think, well, if I could just catch that

0:39.5

big break, then everything would be different. Most of life, though, is

0:44.1

learning to make small decisions that can add up to big results. And that

0:48.8

applies to marriage. I'm John Fuller in the studio with Aaron and Greg

0:53.1

Smolley. They lead our focus marriage team here. And let's go ahead and

0:57.2

hear now from Gary Thomas, who is a wonderful Christian thinker who speaks a

1:01.9

lot about marriage. And in our previous conversation, we covered a lot. You can

1:06.9

find the entire download of the discussion in the show notes. In this clip,

1:11.5

let's go ahead and hear Gary as he shares why you should never overlook the

1:15.1

little ways that you can improve your relationship. Let's move a little bit

1:19.7

to practical. You speak in the book about the good thing of recognizing big

1:25.8

milestones, maybe recelibrating your anniversary and doing a

1:30.1

recommitment ceremony, something like that. But something big, you caution

1:34.8

couples to say, try to do it in small ways over a long period of time. So to

1:41.6

talk about that distinction, it's been my experience that that small and

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