Two Lessons from Hard Times
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
When your marriage faces a storm, it can either make your relationship stronger or hurt it. Jim Daly talks with author and pastor Gary Thomas about lessons couples can learn from storms, plus John Fuller and Greg Smalley address how a storm doesn't have to completely ruin your marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Let me ask you to think back to when you were in school. |
| 0:08.7 | It might have felt great to get a good grade on a test, but how many of us actually enjoyed |
| 0:13.6 | the process of taking the test? |
| 0:16.2 | Ugh, it's painful. |
| 0:18.1 | In the same way, when your marriage faces a test, it can be difficult. |
| 0:21.8 | When you're right in the middle of it, but then the lessons you learn bring such great |
| 0:25.7 | benefits and maybe even good feelings. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Greg Smalley and his wife Aaron Smalley, and they lead the |
| 0:32.0 | focus on the family marriage team. |
| 0:34.4 | And we're going to begin today's episode by hearing from very popular author and speaker |
| 0:38.9 | Gary Thomas. |
| 0:39.9 | A few months back, he wrote a book to help you navigate the storms, you and your spouse |
| 0:44.5 | will face. |
| 0:45.5 | And here he is now with focus president Jim Daly. |
| 0:48.0 | Gary, welcome back to focus on the family and welcome to Colorado. |
| 0:51.2 | Oh, thank you. |
| 0:52.2 | It's been the most pleasant journey here yet. |
| 0:54.3 | Less than an hour. |
| 0:55.3 | You're on a very pleasant ride with very pleasant surrounding. |
| 0:57.5 | Oh, wait till snows. |
| 0:58.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.5 | That'll be a five hour journey. |
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