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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" has 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 Aaron and Jennifer Smith.

[Jennifer] Your hosts, hi.

[Aaron] And we're glad to have you, yeah, hi. Jennifer, what's going on in our world right now? Not the world, our world.

[Jennifer] We don't have enough time to cover all of that.

[Aaron] Exactly, very true.

[Jennifer] But our world, meaning you and I.

[Aaron] Yes.

[Jennifer] What is going on? It's good to be recording again with you.

[Aaron] Yes, it is actually. What are you drinking? What did I make you?

[Aaron] You made me chai, thank you.

[Aaron] It's like the world's best chai.

[Jennifer] It's really good.

[Aaron] It's Metolius chai.

[Jennifer] But when you asked me if I wanted, when I was saying yes, 'cause I thought you were making yourself one and you didn't.

[Aaron] No, I made myself a coffee. The chais are good, but the milk messes with my stomach. I can't do it, it's like too much. But I sprinkled some cardamom on the top of there. A little bit of vanilla bean sugar.

[Jennifer] It's fancy.

[Aaron] Yeah.

[Jennifer] Thank you.

[Aaron] You're welcome. So I just got a quick question for you before we move on, as usual. What's something that has brought you joy this week?

[Jennifer] Something that's brought me joy. Well, okay, this was actually really funny. So much joy, I was like, I was laughing about it. I was in the score room with the kids and you know that song ♪ Come thou fount of every blessing ♪ Okay? You know which one I'm talking about?

[Aaron] "Come Thou Fount." Is that what it is?

[Jennifer] I was just letting you know what song it was, 'cause usually, I'll say a name of a song and you don't know unless I'm singing, you know?

[Aaron] Yeah, I know, and you sung it really well.

[Jennifer] Thank you. Poor everybody else right now. Anyways, Olive loves to sing and hum and do all of that and so she was, I think she was trying to sing this song, and I could hear her as she's like playing with math tiles and she was saying& ♪ Come old faithful ♪ And I think, 'cause I don't know.

[Aaron] That's a good version.

[Jennifer] This is so cute. And it made me think of our trip to Yellowstone and seeing Old Faithful, which the kids still bring up that story of being able to see it, y