About the Host
Ron Deal
Ron Deal is Director of FamilyLife Blended®️ for FamilyLife®️ and President of Smart Stepfamilies™️. He is a family ministry consultant and conducts marriage and family seminars around the country; he specializes in marriage education and stepfamily enrichment. He is one of the most widely read authors on stepfamily living in the country.
Episode Transcript
Ron: If you could go back and give yourself some advice, before you married, what would you say?
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Ron: Well, I’d give myself a t-shirt, a modified version of “Keep Calm, Carry On.” It would say, “Keep Calm, Fear Not, Serve Anyway.” You know, learning to manage yourself in conflict is vital to any marriage. Most of us slip into fight, flight, or freeze but keeping calm better allows us to put on the mind of Christ, even in a tough situation.
Fear Not, Serve Anyway: When you’re fearful things aren’t going well, you tend to do things that make things go worse and you stop serving because you’re looking out for yourself. So, Ron, turn down the fear and serve your wife. For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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