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Jennifer (00:10):

Hi, and welcome to the Marriage After God podcast.

Aaron (00:12):

We're your host Aaron and Jennifer Smith.

Jennifer (00:14):

We have been married 15 years and have five sweet children who are growing up way too fast.

Aaron (00:18):

We love God and we love marriage,

Jennifer (00:20):

And we love to be honest about it all.

Aaron (00:22):

Marriage is not always a walk in the park, but we do believe it has a powerful purpose.

Jennifer (00:26):

So our goal here is to open up the conversation to talk about our faith and our marriage,

Aaron (00:30):

Especially in light of the gospel.

Jennifer (00:32):

We certainly don't have all the answers, but if you stick around, we may just make you laugh.

Aaron (00:36):

But our hope is to encourage you to chase boldly after God's purpose for your life together.

Jennifer (00:40):

This is Marriage after God.

Speaker 3 (00:45):

Hey

Aaron (00:46):

Everybody. Welcome back to another episode of The Marriage After God podcast. We're your hosts back at it.

Jennifer (00:52):

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Aaron (00:53):

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Jennifer (00:56):

Oh, back at it. Back

Aaron (00:57):

At it. Here we go. Uh, . Today we're gonna be talking about discussing friendships. That

Jennifer (01:05):

Was kind of redundant.

Aaron (01:05):

I know talking about and discussing are both similar things, but we are, we're gonna talk about that, you know, cultivating deep friendships, the necessity of friendships. Also how it can be difficult in our relationships with our friends, um, but how it's all part of the process. And so that's what we're talking about today.

Jennifer (01:22):

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Aaron (01:46):

So we're, um, talking about friends.

Jennifer (01:50):

We love friends.

Aaron (01:52):

We have friends.

Jennifer (01:53):

We've had a lot of different friends over the years, just thinking about all the many places in the world we've been, We

Aaron (01:59):

Have friends in several countries, and, uh, of course we, we don't see all of them all the time, , but, uh, we have friends in a lot of states too.

Jennifer (02:09):

Yeah, I feel like I'm really grateful for all the opportunities we've had to cultivate friendships at different times throughout our marriage. And it just kind of blows my mind, Aaron. It's like no matter where we've been, no matter how long, like how long or how short of a time we've been in that place mm-hmm. , God has provided real friendships, deep friendships, but it was up to us to make the choice to invest into those relationships and what they would be like.

Aaron (02:36):

Yeah, I agree. I we've had many re relationships that we've had to invest in. Uh, but I also feel like that God's used all of those relationships, probably the, the most in our life to, to grow us, to mature us, to point out areas that God wanted us to change in. Um, so not only did we have the benefit of those friends for our joy and that