Some stories of joy in our home with practical tips to cultivate a habit of joy in our homes.
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[Aaron] Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
[Jennifer] Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
[Aaron] Today we're gonna talk about the strength that joy brings to our home. Welcome to the Marriage After God Podcast, where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just happily ever after.
[Jennifer] I'm Jennifer, also known as Unveiled Wife.
[Aaron] I'm Aaron, also known as Husband Revolution.
[Jennifer] We have been married for over a decade.
[Aaron] So far, we have four young children.
[Jennifer] We have been doing marriage ministry online for over seven years through blogging and social media.
[Aaron] With a desire to inspire couples to keep God at the center of their marriage, encouraging them to walk in faith every day.
[Jennifer] We believe the Christian marriage should be an extraordinary one, full of life.
Love.
And power.
[Aaron] That can only be found by chasing after God.
Together.
Thank you for joining us on this journey as we chase boldly after God's will for our life together.
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[Jennifer] Hmm. I can't think of a specific one at the moment, but what does come to mind is we spent a lot of time serving in youth ministry.
Oh yeah.
A lot of time.
We were youth leaders.
Yeah, and we...
[Aaron] At good old Church on the Hill, Norco, California.
[Jennifer]We played a lot of games. We laughed a lot. We ate weird things. We'd have contests and challenges, and there were just things that we did for the kids' sake, but we had a lot of fun doing together. That was--
Remember the lock-ins? We would just have overnights.
Yup, over-nighters.
[Aaron] We would stay up all night, do milk-chugging contests, and...
[Jennifer] Gosh, that does not sound fun now.
[Aaron] No it doesn't How did we do that?
Back then, it was the highlight of our week. I feel like we just came alive in those times.
We looked forward to it all year, to do those events.
Yeah. Every Wednesday we just came alive during that time, and I fell in love with you, knowing that you had fun participating in that way, being silly...
Little junior high kids and high school kids.
Yeah, being silly or playing, it wasn't dodge-ball, what was it called?
[Aaron] Oh, what...
[Jennifer] Murder-ball?
[Aaron]Yeah, we called it murder-ball.
[Jennifer] We called it murder-ball because it was--
It was just dodge-ball, but we changed the name.
...dodge-ball on steroids, and we had a lot of balls--
There was no line. You just ran around the room, throwing balls at each other.
[Jennifer] You guys would throw them so hard. These poor--
I know
[Jennifer] ...13-year-old girls would