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>> Welcome to It Is Written
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Canada.
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Last week three young couples,
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Ceri and Nathan Johnson,
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Abigail and James Cleveland,
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and Kevin and Shannon Corrigan,
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all shared how key their
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friendship, fondness, and
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on-going admiration is to the
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success of their marital
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happiness.
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>> No matter how long they knew
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each other before they married,
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each identified how the best
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part of being married was
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spending time together, working
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together, and turning toward
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each other instead of away and
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letting their partners
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influence them instead of
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trying to control each other.
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>> Today these three couples
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are going to continue sharing
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what gives them confidence that
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they will stay with each other
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through thick and thin, in
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sickness and in health.
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So let's talk about
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your beliefs.
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I know that you're both
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Christians, how important is
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your Christian faith to you as
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a married couple?
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>> That's a good question.
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I think our faith is probably
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one of the biggest important
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factors.
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That's kind of gave us the
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basis of kinda what we were
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looking for in each other,
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I think.
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>> Our relationship, mm-hm.
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[JAMES] And it helped us to set
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parameters on our relationship
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and kind of what was...what was
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a go and what was a no-go.
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And I think it's probably one
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of the biggest factors that
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gives me confidence that this
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is gonna be successful.
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[ABIGAIL] It's gonna last.
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[JAMES] So the man of God said,
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"Where did it fall?" and he
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showed him the place...
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[NATHAN] You know, like I
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mentioned, you run the race that
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God has for you and when you see
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somebody next to you that's
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striving for that same purpose
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and I think that's what has been
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very foundational in our
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marriage is we both have the
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same goal in life, we both are
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striving for the same thing and
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that has grown us together
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and with Christ.
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>> For my family growing up, we
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had a lot of things that would
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influence me in this direction
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of spiritual life being a big
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part of who I am.
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All of us kids would listen to
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tapes of, like, children's
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Bible stories and then as we
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got older we'd read, you know,
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different books of the Bible or
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that kind of thing and my
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parents were constantly asking
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us at breakfast, "Hey, what did
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you read for your devotions,"
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and the persistence of that,
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knowing every morning, "Hey,
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Dad's gonna ask you what you
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read in your devotions," that
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helped you to make them real
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and of course we had family
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worship every morning, every
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evening after supper and that
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was something that gives me an
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example of what I want my
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family to be with Abigail now.
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I knew going over to Abigail's
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house it was gonna be the exact
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same thing.
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So that helps me also know how
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much each other is alike.
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[ABIGAIL] We definitely were
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encouraged to have devotions
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growing up and encouraged to
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share what we had gotten and I
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think my parents' persistence
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helped me realize how important
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it was and I think it becomes a
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habit, but more than just a
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habit, it becomes something
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that you really enjoy doing and
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I think it was also good to
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know that we grew up so similar
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in that aspect, having our
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devotions and the morning and
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evening worships that we knew
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that would work well in our
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marriage and it was something
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that we'd want to continue if
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we had children in the future
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as well.
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>> ...A blessing to other
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people and just be with us as
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we go about our evening here...
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[KEVIN] It's so important for
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each of us, we've noticed, to
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spend time with God every day
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because we believe that love
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comes from God and as we look
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at His love and understand
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better what love is supposed
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to be.
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So it's very, yeah, it's very
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important to me, I know, and to
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you to spend time with God
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every day 'cause it helps know
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how to love the other person
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more unselfishly, there's-- I
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don't have any unselfish love
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of my own and I think the
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longer you're married, the more
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you tend to realize that love
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really does come from God and
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you need Him to be in the
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middle.
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>> There's things that will
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come up and you have to face a
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decision or you have to face an
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attitude or you have to face a
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choice and...
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If you can't face that knowing
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that God is on your side,
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that's, I think that's super
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concerning, kind of
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disconcerting, you could say.
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So I think for me, faith is a
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huge, huge part of it.
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>> And believing the same thing.
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>> Yeah, that's another--that's
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a good point 'cause I know that
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she's on the same page as I am
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when it comes to everything.
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>> Our faith tells us what our
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lifestyle's gonna be like.
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So if I believe that my body's
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a temple of the Holy Spirit, if
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we both believe that, we're
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gonna be...
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...mindful of what we put into
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our bodies and mindful about how
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much we move or we sit on the
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couch so that means we'll both
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wanna go for a walk and that
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unifies us.
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So if somebody offended us, we
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would have the mind, hopefully,
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of Christ to forgive that
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person together.
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I can only imagine how
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complicated it would be in a
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marriage if I was gonna be
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bitter at that person forever
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and he was willing to forgive,
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it's gonna be hard to invite
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that friend over for dinner
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anymore, right, and that's
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gonna affect our marriage.
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So I think our faith really
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helps unify our marriage
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because it points us in the
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same direction.
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>> So someone watching might be
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wondering to themselves, how
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does that work, like, how do
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you connect spiritually?
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>> I guess talking about what
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we've read and sharing with
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each other where we are with
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our devotions and then having
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worships together.
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Obviously those two things keep
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you on the same track and
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connect you on more than just a
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mental or physical level so
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that's like our spiritual
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connection that keeps us going.
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>> Jesus ascended to the Father
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as a representative of the
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human race and God will bring
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those who reflect His image...
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[SHANNON] We try and do worship
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together every even so we can
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pray together and we just
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choose a book, usually an
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Ellen White book, that we wanna
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read and work through it and
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choose a new one.
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>> Yeah, we're reading Heaven
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right now.
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[SHANNON] Yeah.
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[KEVIN] I think we're almost
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done with that, but yeah, we
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decided to read through Heaven.
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Also, I think, memorizing
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scripture together has been a
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lot of fun.
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>> True.
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>> 'Cause then we can help each
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other review and it's
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encouraging to us because when
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I go through the day I feel
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like I'm thinking about
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something Shannon's thinking
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about which is nice as well.
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'Cause you come back in the
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evening and you have thoughts
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about what you thought about
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during the day and she has
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different thoughts and we can
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compare notes and so I think
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memorizing scripture and
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worship are probably the two
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things we do the most often
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together as far as that goes.
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[SHANNON] And just sharing as
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well, like, you know from doing
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your personal devotions and then
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often at breakfast he'll tell me
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something he read and what he
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thought about it or I have a
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question that I was wondering
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about and we'll talk about it
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together.
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>> I think we're both really
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active with-- in church and
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stuff so keeping the music in
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church going, that helps us to
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also have a focus for that with
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our mission of the young
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people, having them share.
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So it kinda goes all the way
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from, you know, our morning
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devotions to our job and
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thankfully the work that we do
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is kind of part of our
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spiritual passion as well,
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that's to share it.
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So I think it does-- it's a
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huge part and it does keep us
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connected in those ways.
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>> So you're praying together,
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you're praying for each other.
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[JAMES] Absolutely, yeah.
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And talking about the things
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that are on our heart and then
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when we pray every evening, we
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pray, you know, we'd first talk
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about our-- the things we wanna
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talk to God about and then we
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both know those things that are
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on our hearts and then knowing
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that God has them at the end of
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the day, that's, I don't know,
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I guess you could say that's
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kind of a...
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>> A blessing.
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>> It is a blessing, yeah.
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>> Nathan and Ceri, is there a
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Bible verse that guides you
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personally in your marriage?
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>> Yeah, I think one that-- and
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we have lots of Bible verses we
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like, but I think one that
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helps us a lot is Psalms 27:14,
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it says, "Wait upon the Lord
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and be of good courage and He
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shall strengthen thy heart.
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Wait upon the Lord."
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>> It was obviously important
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to us before we were married,
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you know, when you're waiting
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for your spouse, who is it
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gonna be and trusting that
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God's gonna take care of that
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so it's-- it was a bit of a
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wait, but then now that we are
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married, when one of us are
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annoyed at the other person, if
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we are willing to wait before
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we react and give that space as
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a time to pray and a time for
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God to work on the other
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person's heart or your own
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heart, it changes your own
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attitude as well and that can
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be 90% of the problem.
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So waiting in those little
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moments has been super, super
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important to us and we think
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that God just put that verse
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for us.
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>> I definitely have a Bible
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verse that guides me in our
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friendship.
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It's Psalms 141:3...
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It's just so important the
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things I say to Shannon on a
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daily basis, like, it's easy to
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say something quickly without
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thinking.
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It's so easy to come home
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frustrated from work,
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frustrated with someone I
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argued with, maybe a colleague
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or frustrated with a student
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who was rude all morning or
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whatever and Shannon asks me a
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question and I respond and I'm
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not upset with her, but I'm
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upset and she knows me well
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enough to realize it and she
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feels like I'm upset with her
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or whatever.
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And so just knowing that God's
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willing to be in control of my
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mouth and help me to say things
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in a loving way.
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It's so hard to take things
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back and even if they weren't
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meant to be bad or meant to be
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frustrating to the other
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person, Shannon still feels
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whatever I said to her.
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So, I don't know, that verse
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has been very important for me.
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>> I think a verse that guides
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us or guides me, I'll say for
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me, but it's the simple Bible
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verse, "Do unto others as you
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would have them do unto you."
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Sometimes simple things come up
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and it's like, a decision of,
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you know, which way are you
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gonna go with this and keeping
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that in my mind, like, I want
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Abigail to have the best life
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and so if...
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...if it's gonna make me happy
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then surely it's gonna make her
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happy so I'm gonna do it just
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like that.
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So that, I mean, I'm not
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perfect at that, she knows
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that, but that's something that
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I, you could say, I strive for,
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to do it how I'd like it to be
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done to me because I want her
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to have the best life ever.
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>> For me, it's not just a
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verse, it's a whole chapter,
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1 Corinthians 13, I think guides
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both of us really...
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>> Mm-hm, definitely.
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>> ...in our marriage, 'cause
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there Paul's talking about love
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and describes love as being
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patient and kind and unselfish
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and, you know, humble, and it's
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a lot of things that are...
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...I guess, choices you make out
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of principle and not out of
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emotion and so I think for us
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it's important to remember
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because sometimes you're tired,
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you're irritated, or something
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happened that upset you and you
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don't necessarily feel like all
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lovey-dovey with each other,
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but just remembering, you know,
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I love him and so that's--
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because of that I'm going to
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choose to be patient because
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that's what love is, I'm gonna
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choose to be unselfish.
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Things like that, I think that
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verse-- chapter's just
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important to us.
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>> So I wanna talk to you,
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Nathan.
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The Bible tells us in Ephesians
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chapter 5, verse 25 that
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husbands should love their
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wives just as Christ loved the
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church and gave Himself for her.
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So that's a pretty tall order,
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right?
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So how is it that-- how does
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that make you feel to know that
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you are to show that kind of
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love towards Ceri that Christ
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showed towards you?
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>> I don't feel qualified.
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[laughs]
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You know, when I think of the
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love that Christ has shown me,
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I don't feel qualified to be
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able to give that to
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somebody else.
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But I know that it is possible
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through Him and thankfully that
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He has given me a wife who's
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easy to love and who-- it
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naturally flows, right?
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I enjoy giving her love and
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making her happy.
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And I know that it's something
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that I've prayed about a lot,
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too, you know, God, give me the
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love that You desire me to give
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to her, so...
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[MIKE] So following up on that,
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I?ust thinking, your parents,
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did they model that for you
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within their marriage?
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[JAMES] Absolutely.
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I always saw love from my dad to
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my mom and care.
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I never saw him lash out at
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her, at least that I saw.
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So I absolutely saw that
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growing up as a kid, yeah.
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>> And what about you, Ceri,
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did you see that between your
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parents, too?
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>> Yeah, absolutely.
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That's one of the things that
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made me more confident in
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marrying him is because we were
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raised very similar so I never
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heard my parents, like you said,
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lash out on each other or us.
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So screaming or yelling wasn't
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something that-- I knew I
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couldn't get used to and I knew
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he wouldn't make a habit of it
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because that's not what he was
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raised with.
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>> I think just reading about
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how God loves the church helps
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me see how much He loves the
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church and how much He loves
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us, the church is us.
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So to know how much God
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loves us...
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I think if you never felt that
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love from God, it'd be hard to
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pass that on maybe and so
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recently I've been reading the
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Gospels about Jesus in the
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temple and Jesus in Galilee and
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Jesus doing all of these things
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and the way He interacts with
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the people is just, He had so
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much hate coming His way that
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the way He reacted to it was
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so, just perfectly peaceful,
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perfectly loving and for me,
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I have no hate coming my way
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so it should be easy to love
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Abigail and give her just the
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most sweet, you know,
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unconditional love and if God
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could do it in the worst
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circumstances, I think He gives
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me a glimpse of how I can do it
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even when things are going well
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like they are.
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>> Any time you're following
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Christ's example, to live up to
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that is a very high standard,
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an infinitely high standard.
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But I think for me, it's also
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an encouragement because the
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Bible says that so that means
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it's possible.
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So every day I can get up and
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ask Christ to live that kind of
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love in my life to Shannon.
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He knows how to love Shannon in
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a way I have no idea so I can
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ask Him to please help me
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with that.
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And any time I ask, you know,
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"Please help me to love Shannon
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in a way she can feel it."
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It's encouraging to me to see
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that God can do that 'cause
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I've certainly run out of good
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ideas sometimes, but God knows
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exactly what the other person
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wants and needs at any moment.
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So to me, I see that verse, it
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is a challenge, but it's also a
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promise and I'm thankful for it.
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>> If we back up a little bit
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in Ephesians 5, verses 22 to
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24, we read the following...
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Ceri, how do those words make
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you feel?
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>> I can imagine if I was in a
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relationship that was really
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controlling, this verse would
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stress me out and if I didn't
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understand that-- who Christ
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really was and what it really
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means in that verse, then
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yeah, it would stress me out,
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but because I know how Christ
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loves me and treats the church,
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it actually-- I'm excited.
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Like, if there's somebody that
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you love their mission so much,
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then it's awesome, then it
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excites me.
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That's why I married him,
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'cause he was going in the same
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direction, with the same
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mission that I wanted to go so
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it's not hard.
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And when he loves me the way he
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does and like Christ, it just
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gets easier and easier.
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So it's an awesome verse and
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it's encouraging.
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>> I think in the world today
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the thought of submitting to
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something or being subject to
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something is not very pleasant
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because I think Satan has tried
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to twist that idea into just
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submitting without any
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restraint on the part of the
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person you're submitting to.
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Just if they abuse you you just
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have to accept it, if they make
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a decision that you don't think
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is right, you just have to go
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along with it, you know?
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But I think we have to step
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back and remember that it says
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to submit to your husband as
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the church is submitted to
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Christ and you know that Christ
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did not, like, He didn't take
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advant-- He doesn't take
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advantage of that leadership,
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that role.
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He's shown as the Shepherd who
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guards His sheep, you know?
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So I think that-- taking it
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into the perspective of James
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being my protector and my
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leader and kind of a safe place
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for me.
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If you think of it that way,
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there's no fear in it, it's
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actually a comfort to be able
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to know and to be subject to
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him, but also supported and
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loved and led by him.
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>> There are many relationships
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that are not healthy and not
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happy and I think when you
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think about someone having to
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submit to someone, women have
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to submit to a man who's maybe
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treating her really badly, you
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know that doesn't feel good.
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But when you're in a
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relationship where the husband
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is trying to treat you like
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Jesus-- love you as Jesus loves
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you, it makes it a lot easier
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to submit and I think, for me,
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when I think of a worldly way
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of thinking of submit, it's
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kinda like, "I don't have an
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opinion, I'm just gonna do
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whatever you say."
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But I think in the Bible sense,
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he has my best interest at
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heart and so I'm submitting,
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but it's not to his selfish
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ideas, it's like respecting him
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and we have each other's best
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interest at heart and so I want
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to respect him, I want to
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submit to him.
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>> So how do you have
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confidence that you will stay
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together through thick and
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thin, in sickness and health,
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until death do you part?
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>> That's a great question.
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I think everything that we've
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talked about today is a factor
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that adds up to me being
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confident that we'll stick
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together forever.
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Like, the fact that we both
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have a relationship with God
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that is not just because we
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have to, like, we both want to,
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it's both an important part of
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keeping us on the same track,
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the fact that we knew how each
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other grew up and we know,
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like, our--both our-- we love
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both our families, both of our
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families love us and that gives
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us the confidence.
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The fact that we love what we
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do, the fact we spend time
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doing things together, all of
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those combined with the fact
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that I know for sure that God
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brought us together, that last
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one's by far the most important
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to me because if God brought us
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together then He asked us to
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stay together so we're
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definitely gonna do that,
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that's easy.
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>> I think, when you sickness
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and health, you know, it
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reminds me of our honeymoon.
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We both got-- well, I got sick
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and then she got sick on our
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honeymoon and, you know, that's
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a good way to test it out on
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your honeymoon, just to see
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how she cared for me on that.
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But I think more than that is
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I-- because we knew each other
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for a while before we got
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married, that helped a lot in
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seeing how they reacted in
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different situations, at least
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for me to her.
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And I know that she is gonna be
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faithful because I've seen how
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she's been faithful in other
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things and how she has been so
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far and I have no doubt, I
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trust her and I think that
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comes along with, you know,
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it's like she's like my best
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friend, right?
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I can trust her.
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>> For us there's just not a
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back door open, like, you know,
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we've promised that we're gonna
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do this, we made that promise,
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"Til death do us part," and so
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I think just being intentional
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about it every day, not being
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like, "Oh, we'll see what
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happens," like, it's fun at the
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moment.
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Like, you know, when it's not
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fun or we're upset or
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something, you know, well, we
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need to fix this, we need to
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figure out how we can do
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better.
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[ABIGAIL] Having values that
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match up, interests that match
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up, even our jobs right now
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being so similar, I think even
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just not looking at the
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spiritual side of things, having
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so much in common is gonna help
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because you're going to be going
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through life together instead
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of separate living in the same
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house.
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>> These are the zinnias, those
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are by the dahlias...
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[CERI] Yeah, he's probably the
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most loyal, hard-working...
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...person I know.
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He doesn't quit early, he
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finishes everything he starts
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so I know that he's gonna do
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that for our marriage, too.
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[KEVIN] I know for me, sticking
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together because we know we're
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going to, I invest because I
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know I'm gonna stick with her,
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I'm gonna spend time trying to
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take care of anything that seems
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like a difficulty.
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And as I see Shannon investing
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every day in me and trying to
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make me happy, then I'm
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confident that's what she's
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doing, too, and I think it just
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becomes easier and easier to do
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that for the other person.
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¤ There is beauty all around ¤
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¤ When there's love at home ¤
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¤ There is joy in every sound ¤
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¤ When there's love at home ¤
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¤ Peace and plenty here abide ¤
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¤ Smiling fair on every side ¤
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¤ Time doth softly ¤
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¤ sweetly glide ¤
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¤ When there's love at home ¤
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¤ Jesus, make me wholly Thine ¤
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¤ Then there's love at home ¤
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¤ May Thy sacrifice be mine ¤
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¤ Then there's love at home ¤
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¤ Safely from all harm ¤
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¤ I'll rest ¤
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¤ With no sinful ¤
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¤ care distressed ¤
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¤ Through Thy tender ¤
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¤ mercy blessed ¤
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¤ When there's love at home ¤
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¤ Love at home ¤
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¤ Love at home ¤
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¤ Time doth softly ¤
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¤ sweetly glide ¤
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¤ When there's love at home ¤
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¤¤
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>> Thank you so much for being
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able to come onto It Is Written
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Canada, talk about a
00:26:14.17\00:26:15.80
vulnerable, vulnerable topic,
00:26:15.80\00:26:17.74
your love for one another so
00:26:17.74\00:26:20.54
thank you so much, James and
00:26:20.54\00:26:21.48
Abigail.
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>> Absolutely, thank you for
00:26:22.11\00:26:22.91
having us.
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>> Yes, thank you.
00:26:23.38\00:26:24.65
>> We're gonna close with a
00:26:24.65\00:26:25.38
word of prayer.
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Let's pray.
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Father in Heaven, I thank You
00:26:27.68\00:26:29.15
so much for the love that You
00:26:29.15\00:26:31.85
have placed in James and
00:26:31.85\00:26:34.39
Abigail's hearts for one
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another, also for Ceri and
00:26:35.62\00:26:37.39
Nathan and for Kevin and
00:26:37.39\00:26:39.26
Shannon and the way in which
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they have shared that love with
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others and the way that they
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are prepared to tackle
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difficult subjects within their
00:26:48.90\00:26:50.71
marriage and talk about them
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and dream together and move
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forward and looking to You for
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guidance each day.
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Thank You for hearing and for
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answering our prayers.
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In Jesus' name, amen.
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[ALL] Amen.
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>> Those three young couples,
00:27:05.22\00:27:07.02
Ceri and Nathan, Abigail and
00:27:07.02\00:27:09.02
James, and Kevin and Shannon,
00:27:09.02\00:27:11.79
have honestly shared how
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they are negotiating both the
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fun and the frustrations of
00:27:15.53\00:27:17.83
married life.
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And it's obvious that they
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