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[Jennifer] Welcome to the "Marriage After God" podcast.

[Aaron] We're your hosts. I'm Aaron.

[Jennifer] And I'm Jennifer.

[Aaron] We've been married for 14 years.

[Jennifer] And we have five young children.

[Aaron] 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.

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

[Aaron] Marriage after God is a message to remind all of us that God designed marriage with a purpose.

[Jennifer] To reflect his love.

[Aaron] To be a light in this world.

[Jennifer] to work together as a team.

[Aaron] Using what he has given us.

[Jennifer] To build his kingdom.

[Aaron] Our hope is to encourage you along your marriage journey.

[Jennifer] As you boldly chase after God together.

[Aaron] This is "Marriage After God." Hey everyone, welcome back to the "Marriage After God" podcast. We're in Jennifer Smith, your host-

[Aaron] Yeah, we're excited to be back with another episode.

[Jennifer] Do you know that we are more than halfway through the season?

[Aaron] I know, crazy. It's going by really fast and it feels good.

[Jennifer] Yeah. Hope everyone's enjoying it as much as we are.

[Aaron] Yeah.

[Jennifer] One thing I wanted to share with you guys just starting out the gate here, is took the kids for a walk, we have these really cool parks where we live in central Oregon, and just wide open nature, fresh air flowing river, awesome bridge to walk over, and we got outside. And sometimes it gets hard for me in the wintertime 'cause it's like, I don't know, it's cold.

[Aaron] and you did it by yourself, I missed out on it today.

[Jennifer] Yeah, usually I make you go along with me, huh?

[Aaron] Yeah.

[Jennifer] More hands-

I was impressed.

[Aaron] And I missed it, 'cause I like going on those little adventures with you.

[Jennifer] Well, a friend invited me, and it was just really good to get out despite it being cold, and the reason that I'm sharing this with you guys is because this friend of mine just is very enthusiastic and passionate about nature and being outside all the time, and so one of her ways of encouraging me is this challenge she gave me, this piece of paper that said the thousand hour challenge, and there's all these little bubbles that you get to mark off for every hour that you're outside with the kids, and I just thought how wonderful, and so it's been a fun little way of kind of keeping ourselves accountable to being outside every day, and the kids have loved being outside. I mean, they ask for it all the time anyways, so if anyone wants to take up that challenge, it's a thousand hour challenge.

[Aaron] How many hours have you done outside?

[Jennifer] I don't know, since I started it's been about a week. I think we got in I wanna say nine hours that I'm keeping track of.

[Aaron] So I'm outside playing all day out back. So like that counts as like the, towards the hours. It doesn't have to be on an adventure just outside-

[Jennifer] It could just be outside.

[Aaron] That's cool.

[Jennifer