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Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast.

We're your hosts. I'm Aaron.

And I'm Jennifer.

We've been married for 14 years.

And we have five young children.

We started blogging over 10 years ago. Sharing our marriage story in hopes of encouraging other husbands and wives to draw closer to God and closer to each other.

We have authored over 10 books together including our newest book, "Marriage After God". The book that inspired us to start this podcast.

"Marriage After God" has a message to remind all of us that God designed marriage with a purpose.

To reflect His love.

To be a light in this world.

To work together as a team.

Using what He has given us...

To build His kingdom.

Our hope is to encourage you along your marriage journey...

As you boldly chase after God together.

This is Marriage After God.

Welcome back to the Marriage After God podcast. We're your hosts, Aaron and Jennifer Smith.

Hey guys

What are you drinking there?

What? Oh.

What are you drinking?

I made chai tea.

Tea. I'm drinking a rooiboss. And it's really good.

Copy catter.

I did actually-

You saw me sneak in here with tea.

I...

No, I actually saw you with tea and I was like, "I'm going to go get some tea."

It's cold, 'cause I was taking care of the baby and then I didn't get to drink it when it was warm. That's okay. Curious, how many people have the whistling stuck in their head from last week? Did you, Aaron?

I've actually.. I've actually been whistling it.

No, you haven't. Really?

Yes I have. I don't know if that's exactly right but...

I don't know if that's going to sound good to everyone else.

High key... And it was like high-pitch. Yeah, no, I really liked the whistling and the song. I hope they do too.

All right. I have to apologize because I re-listened to our kickoff episode from last week and I say 'um' a lot.

Are you sure 'um'?

We both said it a lot. I guess I'm just really rusty or I forgot how to podcast with you. Maybe I'm nervous. I have no idea what the problem was but I don't ever remember saying 'um' so many times. It was so many times we couldn't even edit them out because...

I know you asked me like, "Can't we just like cut all of these um's out?" I'm like, no. I mean we could, but then it'd be like really choppy.

Choppy, yeah. So for those of you who suffered through it, I am sorry and I promise to get better. Bear with me, bear with us.

Mmm. There's probably some, like speech coaches out there they're are thinking, "Oh, we can help these people." Yeah, right.

We can help them.

Yeah.

Yeah, there's one.

Oh, oh.

We are going to try and not say a bunch of uh's and um's.

Well, you know, when you take a handful of months off, you just...

You lose all ability to speak.

We're working on it.

Apologizing is kind of a part of this episode. So that's a..

That's a good one.

That's a good way to start.

Don't give away the key. Okay.

Yeah.

What else were you...

Well, last week we mentioned routines. Just as a little update. And being the first...

Week of the year. Second week of the year.

Yeah, a couple weeks of the year, I would say that we're on the right track. I'm not going to say perfect. We're on the right track. I've been trying to get up in t