{"id":305701,"date":"2020-01-23T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/unpacking-your-bags\/"},"modified":"2020-01-23T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T11:00:04","slug":"unpacking-your-bags","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/unpacking-your-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking Your Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint and Penny Bragg talk about the baggage they should have discussed before getting married and their miraculous remarriage after 11 long years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":294104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"https:\/\/web.familylifetoday.com\/fl2020-01-23.mp3","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:33:25","filesize":"30.6M","filesize_raw":"32085128","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":""},"categories":[2883,2863],"tags":[6818],"podcast_series":[8333],"cwp_profile":[9393],"series":[2101],"class_list":["post-305701","podcast","type-podcast","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resurrected-marriages","category-saving-a-marriage","tag-marriage-off-course","podcast_series-marriage-off-course","cwp_profile-clint-and-penny-bragg","series-familylife-today"],"acf":[],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2024\/09\/FLT-Podcast-Cover-2-508x508-3.jpg?w=508","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1001\/2023\/02\/image-scaled.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-download\/305701\/unpacking-your-bags","player_link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast-player\/305701\/unpacking-your-bags","audio_player":null,"episode_data":{"playerMode":"light","subscribeUrls":{"apple_podcasts":{"key":"apple_podcasts","url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/familylife-today\/id212174303?mt=2&app=podcast","label":"Apple Podcasts","class":"apple_podcasts","icon":"apple-podcasts.png"},"google_podcasts":{"key":"google_podcasts","url":"","label":"Google Podcasts","class":"google_podcasts","icon":"google-podcasts.png"},"spotify":{"key":"spotify","url":"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0j5UaKdQOHQCuo1bt0ebEm","label":"Spotify","class":"spotify","icon":"spotify.png"},"youtube":{"key":"youtube","url":"","label":"YouTube","class":"youtube","icon":"youtube.png"}},"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/feed\/podcast\/familylife-today","embedCode":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AelXy0p4PT\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/unpacking-your-bags\/\">Unpacking Your Bags<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/unpacking-your-bags\/embed\/#?secret=AelXy0p4PT\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" title=\"&#8220;Unpacking Your Bags&#8221; &#8212; FamilyLife\u00ae - A Cru Ministry\" data-secret=\"AelXy0p4PT\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! 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You\u2014pastor\u2019s wives\u2014you know what you do?\u2014you love people unconditionally. You just love on them, and love on them, and love on them, until they want so much more of the Lord. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThat\u2019s exactly what this gal did for me. It broke my heart open. I finally confessed to her that I had sinned; I had been unfaithful in my marriage. I had left it, and I had hidden that from people for eight years. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Thursday, January 23<sup>rd<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I\u2019m Bob Lepine. You can find us online at FamilyLifeToday.com. We\u2019re going to hear from Clint and Penny Bragg today about how the love of a pastor\u2019s wife was the first step in what led to the healing of a broken marriage. Stay with us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us on the Thursday edition. We\u2019re going to hear about a resurrected marriage today. You know, we have the opportunity to talk to couples, who have experienced this kind of transformation in their marriage at our <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> marriage getaways. Most of the couples, who are coming to the getaways, are couples who are in a good marriage; and they just want to keep it solid and well-anchored in Christ. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut we have couples, who come to every getaway, who are\u2014they are at the end. They don\u2019t know what else to do. They\u2019ve lost hope; they are out of strategies. They find, as they spend the weekend with us, that the Bible speaks to marriage; and there are things they have never heard before. God meets them at that weekend; we\u2019ve seen God transform marriages. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI just want to remind our listeners, as we get started today, we are offering, this week, 50 percent off the regular registration fee for any of you who would like to attend an upcoming <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway. You sign up this week; you save 50 percent. There is information on our website at FamilyLifeToday.com; or you can call if you have any questions or you\u2019d like to register by phone: 1-800-FL-TODAY is our number. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFind a weekend that works for you when we\u2019re going to be in a city near where you live or a city you\u2019d like to visit. Block that out on your schedule for this spring; and the two of you get away for a fun, relaxing, romantic time together, where you will learn more about what God\u2019s Word has to say about marriage. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com to register, or you can call at 1-800-FL-TODAY. Again, you\u2019ll save 50 percent off as long as you register this week; and we hope to see you at one of our upcoming getaways. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, have you guys met marriage missionaries before? Have you ever met any marriage missionaries? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I have <em>never<\/em> met a marriage missionary. Have you, Ann? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> I think we would identify ourselves as marriage missionaries; but never ones that identified and called themselves: \u201cWe are marriage missionaries.\u201d [Laughter] \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> There you go. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We\u2019ve got a couple of marriage missionaries joining us back on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Clint and Penny Bragg, welcome back to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Thanks for having us, Bob. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Thank you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> These guys were here\u2014we were just talking\u2014about a decade ago\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014after you had written your first book, which was really your story of God doing a work in your own marriage. At that point, you were already out on the road. In fact, I think of you guys\u2014I think of 2 Corinthians 1, where the Bible says that: \u201cGod is the God of all comfort, who comforts us in our afflictions so that we are able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort that we\u2019ve received as we\u2019ve been comforted by God.\u201d That\u2019s what God\u2019s called you to. He took you from\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Ooh. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014a mess\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u2014a mess. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes; a big mess. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, tell our listeners about the mess. Can you do that? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Sure, as leaders in our church back in \u201989, we were married; and you know, we really had the world by the tail, or so we thought. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> We are both Type A personalities; walked down the aisle, ready to go into this thing called marriage without addressing any of our past issues\/baggage. It took two years for all that to come to the surface; and when it did, the mess started to explode. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes; so what happened is\u2014is that Penny was distancing herself from me. I tried to pursue her\/tried to figure out what was going on. She wasn\u2019t really being honest with me at that time. What happens is\u2014I finally found out there was someone else in our marriage, and I told her to make a choice. She chose the other person. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You got really annoyed with his pursuit of you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> I did. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Anytime he\u2019d come and try to woo you back,\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Oh! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014you\u2019d\u2014it just made you angry. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> I <em>vividly<\/em> remember taking my wedding ring off and throwing it at him across the room. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Now, how did you get to that place?\u2014because some women are like, \u201cI want my husband to pursue me\u201d; and you\u2019re like, \u201cNo.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u201cNo.\u201d You know, this is the thing about when we begin to separate ourselves from God\u2014and that was what I was doing with my pain. Pain can move us toward God, or pain can pull us away from God. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was allowing the emotional pain that I had suppressed for so long in my life\u2014from various things in my childhood\u2014allowed that anger, now, to rise up and to begin to pull me away from God and to pull me away from Clint. If I start closing my Bible\/I\u2019m not reading my Bible; I\u2019m not wanting to go with him to church; I <em>don\u2019t<\/em> want to take communion\u2014all of this is surfacing\u2014and I\u2019m taking it all out <em>on<\/em> <em>him<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We all come into marriage with different levels of baggage. As you look back, would you say, \u201cI had more suitcases than most\u201d? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> No; actually, I wouldn\u2019t. Now, that we\u2019ve been in this for a while, [Laughter] and I\u2019ve heard a lot of other stories; I\u2019m like, \u201cOh; wow.\u201d But I think I wasn\u2019t <em>aware<\/em> of those things that had happened to me in those youthful, growing up years; and preconceived notions of marriage; and all kinds of things like that. I think it was one of those where I wasn\u2019t aware; also, that Clint had baggage\/things from his past;\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u2014and it just collided. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> You know, when a couple is getting together, they are on the same page\/they are in love with each other. Being in the military, one of the things that they told us: \u201cStanding tall and looking good\u201d; so when you\u2019re dating your spouse, and then when she finally says, \u201cYes, I will marry you,\u201d why would you bring up anything that would kind of destroy that relationship that you\u2019ve been building up? You\u2019ve been building yourself up as the man; you know?\u2014\u201cI\u2019m going to take care of you,\u201d and all that good stuff. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe were both grounded in the Word but not like you should be grounded in the Word. In other words, there are so many people, who call themselves Christians, and the trouble is\u2014they go to church on Sunday, but when do they go to the Word, and look, and find out what God says you need to be doing? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Okay; we need to unpack that a little bit, I think, because listeners, who are going, \u201cOkay; \u2018\u2026grounded in the Word\u2019; but you weren\u2019t <em>really<\/em> grounded in the Word.\u201d Explain the difference between a person, who is ready for marriage because they are really anchored in Christ,\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014and somebody, who is like, \u201cYes; Jesus is really important to me.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Well, here is how I would respond to that, Bob. Clint and I, individually, had come to know Christ at a similar time in our lives: Me, my teen years; him, when he was older\u2014but the same <em>year<\/em> is what I\u2019m saying\u2014because there is an age difference between us; so we had spent about the same amount of time learning about God\/learning about the Bible. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>However<\/em>, we had not ever known\/seen what a Christian marriage: \u201cHow do you do this thing called marriage as Christians?\u201d We didn\u2019t know to pray together\u2014that that should be something we should learn to do together; we should learn how to study the Word together; we should worship God together\u2014all of these things. We <em>watched<\/em>; we kind of tried to figure it out. The last thing that we thought, <em>ever<\/em>, we should do was expose our pasts and our ugly stuff to each other; right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNot having <em>those<\/em> pieces\u2014yes; if you had asked us if we were both Christians\u2014and we believe we knew the Bible fairly well; he probably knew it better than I did, memorized some Scripture verses\u2014but did either one of us ever let Jesus touch the painful places in our hearts and make us whole?\u2014or had we looked to each other to do that? <em>That\u2019s<\/em> the missing piece. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, if we were going back to the beginning, and I\u2019m doing your premarital counseling,\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014what questions should I have asked you that would have brought some of this stuff to the surface that got glossed over? Can you think? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> You know, to tell you the truth, what you just said\u2014there are so many people that do premarital counseling, and guess what? Penny and I\u2014she said, \u201cWe are A-Type personalities.\u201d Guess what? They gave us all the tests; we had the same answers on all the questions; you know? We were on the same page, so we thought we had it all together. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe thing is\u2014is that really we need to learn how to be disciples of Christ. What does that mean? You know, Jesus says, in order to be His disciples, we need to deny ourselves, take up a cross daily, and follow Him. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDenying yourself means we\u2019re supposed to empty ourselves and let <em>Him<\/em> fill our hearts and lead us in what we\u2019re doing. The second thing, taking up a cross\u2014what does that mean?! Christ says: \u201cIt means you need to be in My Word. If you are in My Word; you abide in Me, this tells Me that you are My disciple.\u201d The second thing is: \u201cYou need to talk to Me every day,\u201d\u2014that\u2019s praying. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe third thing is: \u201cYou need accountability. You need to be hanging out with other believers.\u201d For Penny, she\u2019s got a lady who is her prayer partner; I have a guy that\u2019s my prayer partner. We have to have accountability in our life. The last thing is\u2014if we are doing those first three things, we start bearing fruit. What does it say in John 15:8?\u2014it says, \u201cBy this, My Father is glorified that you bear much fruit and so prove to be My disciples.\u201d Those are the things we need to do to: take up a cross; live in the Word\/pray in faith; fellowship with believers; and witness to the world. <br><br>The last thing we need to do is\u2014we need to be a servant. We need to be just like Christ, and we need to be able to love others as we love ourselves. Now, for Penny, I know that the first time, I was the: \u201cStand up, Pilgrim. Toughen up. We can get through this,\u201d\u2014instead of being compassionate\/instead of listening to what she was saying. If I had done those things, we would not have been divorced for 11 years. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Let me answer your question, Bob, about what would\u2014as a counselor, what would you have asked? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecrets: \u201cWhat secrets\u2014we never delved into the secret parts of your heart\/of your life. Are there secrets that you are keeping?\u201d and \u201cAre there things that have happened to you? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cGo back; do that timeline from birth to the point you met this person that you are going to marry. Let\u2019s talk about <em>those<\/em> years\u201d; because that\u2019s where the broken trust happens. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t think we talk enough in premarital counseling about broken trust\/about the fact that trust can be broken in a bunch of different ways. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are different kinds of trust\u2014physical, financial\u2014so you know, emotional. For example, Clint had been in Vietnam; he had served as a solider in Vietnam. <em>None<\/em> of that\u2014we discussed <em>none<\/em> of that in our pre-marriage counseling. How can you go through two tours, serving in Vietnam in a war, and not think that that\u2019s going to impact your marriage? Or like, for me, my parents\u2019 divorce\u2014that\u2019s another topic that\u2019s very difficult for kids when their parents get divorced; so let\u2019s talk about that: \u201cHow did <em>that<\/em> impact you?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> So, those are the bags you\u2019d unpack. I want to go back to the beginning\u2014you didn\u2019t talk about these things. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> No. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> No. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> There are couples listening, going, \u201cOkay; what should we talk about?\u201d\u2014either, you know, newly-married or even, maybe, pre-married\u2014what are the pieces of luggage that couples need to dive into? Because we don\u2019t talk about this enough; but when a couple walks down the aisle, they should be pulling a bag with them on their wedding day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Exactly. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> We actually did that one time\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Did you? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014Dave and I; yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Did you? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> As a message, we had a couple\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201cYou\u2019re bringing luggage.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014carrying their luggage. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes; so talk about that a little bit; we talked about writing a book on that. What bags need to be unpacked? I heard, \u201csecrets.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I heard, \u201cpast.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u201cChildhood.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u201cDivorce.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u201cDivorce.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> The difference is\u2014between her\u2014she is Italian; I\u2019m German. Have you ever been in Italian culture?\u2014and see how they operate, and how they talk, and how they throw their hands up. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> So, conflict\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes; conflict. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014was very different for both of you? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Exactly. I\u2014in my family, we talked about it for about two minutes; we agreed, and we moved on. In her family, you don\u2019t move on until this thing is resolved. I didn\u2019t realize that the first time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Those are some of the things that, I think, weren\u2019t addressed for us. You know, we talk about bringing baggage to a marriage. I think we bring standards to a marriage. My standard of how something, as simple as organizing the home, could be very different from what Clint\u2019s standard is for organizing a home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou might have a small conflict over something like that or a large conflict over something like a family vacation, where in my family, you do your trips together because you\u2019re Italian; and you all want to be together, and it is all centered around food. For Clint\u2019s, it\u2019s very much that \u201cleave and cleave\u201d and separate. Those are some of the types of things that started coming up for us, and we didn\u2019t have the tools to deal with them. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Now, talk about this: If\u2014Clint, you mentioned\u2014if you are in the Word, you\u2019ve got accountability, you\u2019re serving\/denying yourself\u2014how does that aspect of your spiritual walk with God, and Jesus being the foundation, affect this aspect as well as these pieces of luggage, and past, and things that need to be talked about? How do they mesh together? On the one side, you\u2019re not saying, \u201cOh, just trust God, and it all goes away.\u201d You\u2019re saying, \u201cTrust God, but you also have to deal with issues.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Within two weeks after we remarried, we had a really bad fight. We realized that, \u201cHey, we knew that God was putting us back together, but we had to learn how to do that.\u201d What we started doing, as a couple, is trying to figure out: \u201cWhat is the standard that we need to do that works for us?\u201d because she had a standard of doing stuff; I had a standard of doing the same thing a different way. We had to come to a consensus: \u201cWhat does God say in His Word that says that we need to change this standard to God\u2019s standard and live our life by that?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen we have those different conflicts\u2014if I am denying myself, and taking up my cross, and having accountability\u2014my accountability person is the one, when I\u2019m really frustrated with something that\u2019s not working out between Penny and myself\u2014first, I take it to God; but then I take it to my accountability [partner] and say: \u201cHere\u2019s the situation. Give me some advice. Tell me where it says in the Word where I need to do this or that. Help me understand. Is\u2014am I off task?\u201d That\u2019s where I have to start going. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are a lot of times when Penny would do something, and it would bug the heck out of me. What I finally started doing is taking it to God and saying: \u201cGod, okay, is this worth a fight over? What do I need to do? Do I need to give in and just give up on this thing and not let it affect my life?\u2014I need to move on. I love this lady; I know You gave her to me, and I want to honor that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe do this thing every three months\u2014it\u2019s called a mini-marriage retreat, where we go away every 90 days and plan out 90 days in advance, with God, in seven different areas. In one of the areas, it\u2019s about relationships. That\u2019s when I talked with Penny\u2014I said, \u201cHey, remember when you said such and such?\u201d I said, \u201cI need to tell you that hurt me, and this is why it hurt me.\u201d She explained it to me, and she didn\u2019t mean anything by that; but for 90 days, I was just inside, saying, \u201cOh, my goodness, man, this really hurts.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Penny, tell me about this mini-marriage retreat. I am curious, because I\u2019m thinking how many couples would benefit from a wheel alignment every 90 days in their marriage\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Exactly. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014where you clear the decks and you get back on the right track. What does that look like for you guys, and how can other couples do that? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> When God reconciled our marriage and we decided to start taking these mini-marriage retreats, I was a little nervous. I didn\u2019t know what we were going to do and what that was going to look like. God showed us that, because we kept secrets the first time that we were married in different areas of our lives, what would it look like if we kept unpacking the bags, all the way along, in the remainder of our marriage? We\u2019re going to be learning this thing called marriage; we are going to be learning it every day for the rest of our lives. <br><br>We go on these little mini-marriage retreats, and we just talk about areas of: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFinances: \u201cAny secrets that we\u2019re keeping there?\u201d \u201cAnything that\u2019s uncomfortable in our marriage?\u201d \u201cHow are we looking? What does our savings look like? What\u2019s our budget?\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s our\u2026\u201d\u2014you know, those kinds of things. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSame thing with relationships: \u201cIs there anybody that I\u2019m in a relationship with right now that might make you feel uncomfortable?\u201d These are the things that we didn\u2019t have\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Really? You\u2019re that honest with each other? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u201cIs there anybody in my life that you\u2019re uncomfortable with? Are there any friends?\u201d Clint will say the same thing; and I might say, \u201cWell, your prayer partner kind of surprised me the other day because this or that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt gives us a system. I think talking about this kind of stuff this openly\u2014we share our passwords with each other: \u201cDo you have any new accounts with new passwords? Let\u2019s look at those.\u201d \u201cOkay; here is my list of new passwords...\u201d You know, whatever it is\u2014we go through. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe talk about our spiritual life: \u201cHow are you growing spiritually? So in the next 90 days, where are you going to be in the Bible; do you think? Are you reading any other books?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe talk about these areas that were all kind of our downfall the first time we were married. Now, taking this intentional approach, we have been remarried 17 years. We\u2019ve been unpacking bags <em>every day<\/em>. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Sixty-eight mini-marriage retreats. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Yes; 68 mini-marriage retreats. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Do you go away for that? Do you go to a hotel? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Sometimes, we do; yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Sometimes, you do it at home? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> It depends on what the budget is like. We <em>never<\/em> do it at home, because we can get interrupted too easily. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> We can get sidetracked too easily. We can go to our little comfort spots too easily. It\u2019s always <em>out<\/em> someplace else. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Who determines what you\u2019re going to talk about? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Well, we have seven areas, so we know we\u2019re going to do that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> So, seven areas every time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Yes; seven areas every time\u2014so spiritual, relationships, financial, health and fitness, home, and big dreams and possibilities\u2014those are our seven areas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> That keeps us focused on\u2014and we each have a journal. We just go and we go through Area Number One, and Two, and Three. Sometimes, it takes two hours; sometimes, it takes ten. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes; what we always do, when we get to the next mini-marriage retreat, we go over the last 90 days. We go through each area with God and say, \u201cOkay; when did You say, \u2018Yes,\u2019 and when did you say, \u2018No\u2019?\u201d If He says, \u201cNo,\u201d to something, we don\u2019t try and change it. We say, \u201cOkay; there is a reason why You are saying, \u2018No\u2019\u201d; so we go through it. Then we pray and thank Him for what He did for the last 90 days; and then we ask Him, \u201cGuide us the next 90 days.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me tell you\u2014it\u2019s helped get us debt free in our finances. It\u2019s helped us to grow in our spiritual walk with Him\u2014individually; but both, as a couple\u2014because we do devotion times on Sunday nights, and we pray together every morning. We pray before we leave the house so that God goes with us and protects us wherever we go. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Clint, as you are saying that, I realize I listed six and not seven. The seventh category is our profession, which is\u2014for us is full-time marriage missionaries. We talk about our work: \u201cAre we spending too much time doing that? What does that look like?\u201d If one of us is travelling, we can talk about all those kinds of things as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> In some ways, it sounds like you need to do a mini-marriage retreat every \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t90 days. I\u2019m also hearing, \u201cBoy, that would be something to do every five days\/six days.\u201d If I had a suspicion that I was questioning a relationship of Ann with somebody, I wouldn\u2019t wait 90 days. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> And here\u2019s a good point. One of the things that we realized that very same thing\u2014we need a shorter period of time, so Sunday nights is our night. Sunday night, 7:30, get on the couch with our Bibles; and we switch off. We just pick a Scripture verse\u2014maybe, a little story we\u2019ve read during the week. That Sunday night time\/every Sunday night is also a time in between the 90 days\u2014right?\u2014where we can check in with the calendar, with: \u201cHey, you know, you said something on Tuesday. I\u2019m still really mad about that.\u201d Having that set-aside time Sunday nights, for us, has been just a lifeline. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> At the beginning of our second marriage, we were busy. I was a new school teacher; she was a principal. What happened is our schedules weren\u2019t lining up. We were hardly seeing each other, and I was really upset about that; so we started incorporating the calendar on those devotion times. We\u2019d say, \u201cOkay; what\u2019s going on Monday? What\u2019s going on Tuesday?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen what happened is she wouldn\u2019t get mad at me because I\u2019d forget to do this or do that. I\u2019d write it into my journal, and she\u2019d write it in her journal. We were on the same page with each other, and the conflicts that we were having\u2014prior to using that calendar and planning out the week together\u2014it just changed all the friction and any stress or worry that was going on in either one of us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I have to think, if you had been doing 90-day marriage checkups\/mini-retreats in the first years of your marriage, that middle gap might have never happened; right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> I agree.<br><br><strong>Clint:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Some of this stuff would have gotten unpacked. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019d just say to listeners: \u201cYou hear us talk about the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway. That is a starting point for regular, ongoing marriage maintenance. Get a weekend away together and really invest in your marriage and then build out a plan for ongoing maintenance from there.\u201d Go to FamilyLifeToday.com and register for one of our upcoming getaways. We\u2019re going to be hosting about five dozen events in cities all across the country this spring. I\u2019m going to be speaking in Orlando in April. Dave and Ann are going to be in Nashville next month; but we\u2019ve got getaways happening near where you live. Find the complete list of getaways when you go to FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you register today or tomorrow, you\u2019ll save 50 percent off the regular registration fee. This offer expires this weekend, so take advantage of the special offer. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com and register online for a getaway, or call if you have any questions; or if you\u2019d like to register by phone, call 1-800-FL-TODAY and plan to join us at an upcoming <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway this spring. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhile you\u2019re on our website, check out Clint and Penny Bragg\u2019s book, <em>Marriage Off Course: Trusting God in the Desert of Unwanted Separation or Divorce<\/em>. If you know somebody who is in this place right now, or if you are in this place, here is a book that can help you think through what your posture should be\/what your approach should be in this season of life. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com to order the book, <em>Marriage Off Course;<\/em> or you can call to order at 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to continue talking about what to do, if you\u2019ve gone through separation or divorce, and you\u2019re wondering if it\u2019s possible for your marriage to get resurrected\/to get back on course. Clint and Penny Bragg join us tomorrow to talk more about that. I hope you can be here for that as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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We\u2019re going to hear about a resurrected marriage today. You know, we have the opportunity to talk to couples, who have experienced this kind of transformation in their marriage at our <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> marriage getaways. Most of the couples, who are coming to the getaways, are couples who are in a good marriage; and they just want to keep it solid and well-anchored in Christ. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut we have couples, who come to every getaway, who are\u2014they are at the end. They don\u2019t know what else to do. They\u2019ve lost hope; they are out of strategies. They find, as they spend the weekend with us, that the Bible speaks to marriage; and there are things they have never heard before. 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He took you from\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Ooh. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014a mess\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u2014a mess. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes; a big mess. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, tell our listeners about the mess. Can you do that? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Sure, as leaders in our church back in \u201989, we were married; and you know, we really had the world by the tail, or so we thought. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> We are both Type A personalities; walked down the aisle, ready to go into this thing called marriage without addressing any of our past issues\/baggage. It took two years for all that to come to the surface; and when it did, the mess started to explode. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes; so what happened is\u2014is that Penny was distancing herself from me. I tried to pursue her\/tried to figure out what was going on. She wasn\u2019t really being honest with me at that time. What happens is\u2014I finally found out there was someone else in our marriage, and I told her to make a choice. She chose the other person. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> You got really annoyed with his pursuit of you. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> I did. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Anytime he\u2019d come and try to woo you back,\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Oh! \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014you\u2019d\u2014it just made you angry. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> I <em>vividly<\/em> remember taking my wedding ring off and throwing it at him across the room. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Now, how did you get to that place?\u2014because some women are like, \u201cI want my husband to pursue me\u201d; and you\u2019re like, \u201cNo.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u201cNo.\u201d You know, this is the thing about when we begin to separate ourselves from God\u2014and that was what I was doing with my pain. Pain can move us toward God, or pain can pull us away from God. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI was allowing the emotional pain that I had suppressed for so long in my life\u2014from various things in my childhood\u2014allowed that anger, now, to rise up and to begin to pull me away from God and to pull me away from Clint. If I start closing my Bible\/I\u2019m not reading my Bible; I\u2019m not wanting to go with him to church; I <em>don\u2019t<\/em> want to take communion\u2014all of this is surfacing\u2014and I\u2019m taking it all out <em>on<\/em> <em>him<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> We all come into marriage with different levels of baggage. As you look back, would you say, \u201cI had more suitcases than most\u201d? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> No; actually, I wouldn\u2019t. Now, that we\u2019ve been in this for a while, [Laughter] and I\u2019ve heard a lot of other stories; I\u2019m like, \u201cOh; wow.\u201d But I think I wasn\u2019t <em>aware<\/em> of those things that had happened to me in those youthful, growing up years; and preconceived notions of marriage; and all kinds of things like that. I think it was one of those where I wasn\u2019t aware; also, that Clint had baggage\/things from his past;\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u2014and it just collided. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> You know, when a couple is getting together, they are on the same page\/they are in love with each other. Being in the military, one of the things that they told us: \u201cStanding tall and looking good\u201d; so when you\u2019re dating your spouse, and then when she finally says, \u201cYes, I will marry you,\u201d why would you bring up anything that would kind of destroy that relationship that you\u2019ve been building up? You\u2019ve been building yourself up as the man; you know?\u2014\u201cI\u2019m going to take care of you,\u201d and all that good stuff. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe were both grounded in the Word but not like you should be grounded in the Word. In other words, there are so many people, who call themselves Christians, and the trouble is\u2014they go to church on Sunday, but when do they go to the Word, and look, and find out what God says you need to be doing? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Okay; we need to unpack that a little bit, I think, because listeners, who are going, \u201cOkay; \u2018\u2026grounded in the Word\u2019; but you weren\u2019t <em>really<\/em> grounded in the Word.\u201d Explain the difference between a person, who is ready for marriage because they are really anchored in Christ,\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014and somebody, who is like, \u201cYes; Jesus is really important to me.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Well, here is how I would respond to that, Bob. Clint and I, individually, had come to know Christ at a similar time in our lives: Me, my teen years; him, when he was older\u2014but the same <em>year<\/em> is what I\u2019m saying\u2014because there is an age difference between us; so we had spent about the same amount of time learning about God\/learning about the Bible. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>However<\/em>, we had not ever known\/seen what a Christian marriage: \u201cHow do you do this thing called marriage as Christians?\u201d We didn\u2019t know to pray together\u2014that that should be something we should learn to do together; we should learn how to study the Word together; we should worship God together\u2014all of these things. We <em>watched<\/em>; we kind of tried to figure it out. The last thing that we thought, <em>ever<\/em>, we should do was expose our pasts and our ugly stuff to each other; right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNot having <em>those<\/em> pieces\u2014yes; if you had asked us if we were both Christians\u2014and we believe we knew the Bible fairly well; he probably knew it better than I did, memorized some Scripture verses\u2014but did either one of us ever let Jesus touch the painful places in our hearts and make us whole?\u2014or had we looked to each other to do that? <em>That\u2019s<\/em> the missing piece. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> So, if we were going back to the beginning, and I\u2019m doing your premarital counseling,\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014what questions should I have asked you that would have brought some of this stuff to the surface that got glossed over? Can you think? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> You know, to tell you the truth, what you just said\u2014there are so many people that do premarital counseling, and guess what? Penny and I\u2014she said, \u201cWe are A-Type personalities.\u201d Guess what? They gave us all the tests; we had the same answers on all the questions; you know? We were on the same page, so we thought we had it all together. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe thing is\u2014is that really we need to learn how to be disciples of Christ. What does that mean? You know, Jesus says, in order to be His disciples, we need to deny ourselves, take up a cross daily, and follow Him. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tDenying yourself means we\u2019re supposed to empty ourselves and let <em>Him<\/em> fill our hearts and lead us in what we\u2019re doing. The second thing, taking up a cross\u2014what does that mean?! Christ says: \u201cIt means you need to be in My Word. If you are in My Word; you abide in Me, this tells Me that you are My disciple.\u201d The second thing is: \u201cYou need to talk to Me every day,\u201d\u2014that\u2019s praying. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe third thing is: \u201cYou need accountability. You need to be hanging out with other believers.\u201d For Penny, she\u2019s got a lady who is her prayer partner; I have a guy that\u2019s my prayer partner. We have to have accountability in our life. The last thing is\u2014if we are doing those first three things, we start bearing fruit. What does it say in John 15:8?\u2014it says, \u201cBy this, My Father is glorified that you bear much fruit and so prove to be My disciples.\u201d Those are the things we need to do to: take up a cross; live in the Word\/pray in faith; fellowship with believers; and witness to the world. <br><br>The last thing we need to do is\u2014we need to be a servant. We need to be just like Christ, and we need to be able to love others as we love ourselves. Now, for Penny, I know that the first time, I was the: \u201cStand up, Pilgrim. Toughen up. We can get through this,\u201d\u2014instead of being compassionate\/instead of listening to what she was saying. If I had done those things, we would not have been divorced for 11 years. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Let me answer your question, Bob, about what would\u2014as a counselor, what would you have asked? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSecrets: \u201cWhat secrets\u2014we never delved into the secret parts of your heart\/of your life. Are there secrets that you are keeping?\u201d and \u201cAre there things that have happened to you? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cGo back; do that timeline from birth to the point you met this person that you are going to marry. Let\u2019s talk about <em>those<\/em> years\u201d; because that\u2019s where the broken trust happens. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI don\u2019t think we talk enough in premarital counseling about broken trust\/about the fact that trust can be broken in a bunch of different ways. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are different kinds of trust\u2014physical, financial\u2014so you know, emotional. For example, Clint had been in Vietnam; he had served as a solider in Vietnam. <em>None<\/em> of that\u2014we discussed <em>none<\/em> of that in our pre-marriage counseling. How can you go through two tours, serving in Vietnam in a war, and not think that that\u2019s going to impact your marriage? Or like, for me, my parents\u2019 divorce\u2014that\u2019s another topic that\u2019s very difficult for kids when their parents get divorced; so let\u2019s talk about that: \u201cHow did <em>that<\/em> impact you?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> So, those are the bags you\u2019d unpack. I want to go back to the beginning\u2014you didn\u2019t talk about these things. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> No. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> No. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> There are couples listening, going, \u201cOkay; what should we talk about?\u201d\u2014either, you know, newly-married or even, maybe, pre-married\u2014what are the pieces of luggage that couples need to dive into? Because we don\u2019t talk about this enough; but when a couple walks down the aisle, they should be pulling a bag with them on their wedding day. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Exactly. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> We actually did that one time\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Did you? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014Dave and I; yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Did you? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> As a message, we had a couple\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> \u201cYou\u2019re bringing luggage.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014carrying their luggage. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Yes; so talk about that a little bit; we talked about writing a book on that. What bags need to be unpacked? I heard, \u201csecrets.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> I heard, \u201cpast.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u201cChildhood.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u201cDivorce.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u201cDivorce.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> The difference is\u2014between her\u2014she is Italian; I\u2019m German. Have you ever been in Italian culture?\u2014and see how they operate, and how they talk, and how they throw their hands up. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> So, conflict\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes; conflict. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> \u2014was very different for both of you? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Exactly. I\u2014in my family, we talked about it for about two minutes; we agreed, and we moved on. In her family, you don\u2019t move on until this thing is resolved. I didn\u2019t realize that the first time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Those are some of the things that, I think, weren\u2019t addressed for us. You know, we talk about bringing baggage to a marriage. I think we bring standards to a marriage. My standard of how something, as simple as organizing the home, could be very different from what Clint\u2019s standard is for organizing a home. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou might have a small conflict over something like that or a large conflict over something like a family vacation, where in my family, you do your trips together because you\u2019re Italian; and you all want to be together, and it is all centered around food. For Clint\u2019s, it\u2019s very much that \u201cleave and cleave\u201d and separate. Those are some of the types of things that started coming up for us, and we didn\u2019t have the tools to deal with them. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> Now, talk about this: If\u2014Clint, you mentioned\u2014if you are in the Word, you\u2019ve got accountability, you\u2019re serving\/denying yourself\u2014how does that aspect of your spiritual walk with God, and Jesus being the foundation, affect this aspect as well as these pieces of luggage, and past, and things that need to be talked about? How do they mesh together? On the one side, you\u2019re not saying, \u201cOh, just trust God, and it all goes away.\u201d You\u2019re saying, \u201cTrust God, but you also have to deal with issues.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Within two weeks after we remarried, we had a really bad fight. We realized that, \u201cHey, we knew that God was putting us back together, but we had to learn how to do that.\u201d What we started doing, as a couple, is trying to figure out: \u201cWhat is the standard that we need to do that works for us?\u201d because she had a standard of doing stuff; I had a standard of doing the same thing a different way. We had to come to a consensus: \u201cWhat does God say in His Word that says that we need to change this standard to God\u2019s standard and live our life by that?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen we have those different conflicts\u2014if I am denying myself, and taking up my cross, and having accountability\u2014my accountability person is the one, when I\u2019m really frustrated with something that\u2019s not working out between Penny and myself\u2014first, I take it to God; but then I take it to my accountability [partner] and say: \u201cHere\u2019s the situation. Give me some advice. Tell me where it says in the Word where I need to do this or that. Help me understand. Is\u2014am I off task?\u201d That\u2019s where I have to start going. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere are a lot of times when Penny would do something, and it would bug the heck out of me. What I finally started doing is taking it to God and saying: \u201cGod, okay, is this worth a fight over? What do I need to do? Do I need to give in and just give up on this thing and not let it affect my life?\u2014I need to move on. I love this lady; I know You gave her to me, and I want to honor that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe do this thing every three months\u2014it\u2019s called a mini-marriage retreat, where we go away every 90 days and plan out 90 days in advance, with God, in seven different areas. In one of the areas, it\u2019s about relationships. That\u2019s when I talked with Penny\u2014I said, \u201cHey, remember when you said such and such?\u201d I said, \u201cI need to tell you that hurt me, and this is why it hurt me.\u201d She explained it to me, and she didn\u2019t mean anything by that; but for 90 days, I was just inside, saying, \u201cOh, my goodness, man, this really hurts.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Penny, tell me about this mini-marriage retreat. I am curious, because I\u2019m thinking how many couples would benefit from a wheel alignment every 90 days in their marriage\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Exactly. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> \u2014where you clear the decks and you get back on the right track. What does that look like for you guys, and how can other couples do that? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> When God reconciled our marriage and we decided to start taking these mini-marriage retreats, I was a little nervous. I didn\u2019t know what we were going to do and what that was going to look like. God showed us that, because we kept secrets the first time that we were married in different areas of our lives, what would it look like if we kept unpacking the bags, all the way along, in the remainder of our marriage? We\u2019re going to be learning this thing called marriage; we are going to be learning it every day for the rest of our lives. <br><br>We go on these little mini-marriage retreats, and we just talk about areas of: \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFinances: \u201cAny secrets that we\u2019re keeping there?\u201d \u201cAnything that\u2019s uncomfortable in our marriage?\u201d \u201cHow are we looking? What does our savings look like? What\u2019s our budget?\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s our\u2026\u201d\u2014you know, those kinds of things. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tSame thing with relationships: \u201cIs there anybody that I\u2019m in a relationship with right now that might make you feel uncomfortable?\u201d These are the things that we didn\u2019t have\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Really? You\u2019re that honest with each other? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> \u201cIs there anybody in my life that you\u2019re uncomfortable with? Are there any friends?\u201d Clint will say the same thing; and I might say, \u201cWell, your prayer partner kind of surprised me the other day because this or that.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt gives us a system. I think talking about this kind of stuff this openly\u2014we share our passwords with each other: \u201cDo you have any new accounts with new passwords? Let\u2019s look at those.\u201d \u201cOkay; here is my list of new passwords...\u201d You know, whatever it is\u2014we go through. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe talk about our spiritual life: \u201cHow are you growing spiritually? So in the next 90 days, where are you going to be in the Bible; do you think? Are you reading any other books?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe talk about these areas that were all kind of our downfall the first time we were married. Now, taking this intentional approach, we have been remarried 17 years. We\u2019ve been unpacking bags <em>every day<\/em>. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Sixty-eight mini-marriage retreats. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Yes; 68 mini-marriage retreats. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Do you go away for that? Do you go to a hotel? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Sometimes, we do; yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Sometimes, you do it at home? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> It depends on what the budget is like. We <em>never<\/em> do it at home, because we can get interrupted too easily. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> We can get sidetracked too easily. We can go to our little comfort spots too easily. It\u2019s always <em>out<\/em> someplace else. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Who determines what you\u2019re going to talk about? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Well, we have seven areas, so we know we\u2019re going to do that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann:<\/strong> So, seven areas every time. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Yes; seven areas every time\u2014so spiritual, relationships, financial, health and fitness, home, and big dreams and possibilities\u2014those are our seven areas. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> That keeps us focused on\u2014and we each have a journal. We just go and we go through Area Number One, and Two, and Three. Sometimes, it takes two hours; sometimes, it takes ten. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> Yes; what we always do, when we get to the next mini-marriage retreat, we go over the last 90 days. We go through each area with God and say, \u201cOkay; when did You say, \u2018Yes,\u2019 and when did you say, \u2018No\u2019?\u201d If He says, \u201cNo,\u201d to something, we don\u2019t try and change it. We say, \u201cOkay; there is a reason why You are saying, \u2018No\u2019\u201d; so we go through it. Then we pray and thank Him for what He did for the last 90 days; and then we ask Him, \u201cGuide us the next 90 days.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tLet me tell you\u2014it\u2019s helped get us debt free in our finances. It\u2019s helped us to grow in our spiritual walk with Him\u2014individually; but both, as a couple\u2014because we do devotion times on Sunday nights, and we pray together every morning. We pray before we leave the house so that God goes with us and protects us wherever we go. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> Clint, as you are saying that, I realize I listed six and not seven. The seventh category is our profession, which is\u2014for us is full-time marriage missionaries. We talk about our work: \u201cAre we spending too much time doing that? What does that look like?\u201d If one of us is travelling, we can talk about all those kinds of things as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave:<\/strong> In some ways, it sounds like you need to do a mini-marriage retreat every \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t90 days. I\u2019m also hearing, \u201cBoy, that would be something to do every five days\/six days.\u201d If I had a suspicion that I was questioning a relationship of Ann with somebody, I wouldn\u2019t wait 90 days. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> And here\u2019s a good point. One of the things that we realized that very same thing\u2014we need a shorter period of time, so Sunday nights is our night. Sunday night, 7:30, get on the couch with our Bibles; and we switch off. We just pick a Scripture verse\u2014maybe, a little story we\u2019ve read during the week. That Sunday night time\/every Sunday night is also a time in between the 90 days\u2014right?\u2014where we can check in with the calendar, with: \u201cHey, you know, you said something on Tuesday. I\u2019m still really mad about that.\u201d Having that set-aside time Sunday nights, for us, has been just a lifeline. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Clint:<\/strong> At the beginning of our second marriage, we were busy. I was a new school teacher; she was a principal. What happened is our schedules weren\u2019t lining up. We were hardly seeing each other, and I was really upset about that; so we started incorporating the calendar on those devotion times. We\u2019d say, \u201cOkay; what\u2019s going on Monday? What\u2019s going on Tuesday?\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThen what happened is she wouldn\u2019t get mad at me because I\u2019d forget to do this or do that. I\u2019d write it into my journal, and she\u2019d write it in her journal. We were on the same page with each other, and the conflicts that we were having\u2014prior to using that calendar and planning out the week together\u2014it just changed all the friction and any stress or worry that was going on in either one of us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> I have to think, if you had been doing 90-day marriage checkups\/mini-retreats in the first years of your marriage, that middle gap might have never happened; right? \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Penny:<\/strong> I agree.<br><br><strong>Clint:<\/strong> Right. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob:<\/strong> Some of this stuff would have gotten unpacked. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019d just say to listeners: \u201cYou hear us talk about the <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway. That is a starting point for regular, ongoing marriage maintenance. Get a weekend away together and really invest in your marriage and then build out a plan for ongoing maintenance from there.\u201d Go to FamilyLifeToday.com and register for one of our upcoming getaways. We\u2019re going to be hosting about five dozen events in cities all across the country this spring. I\u2019m going to be speaking in Orlando in April. Dave and Ann are going to be in Nashville next month; but we\u2019ve got getaways happening near where you live. Find the complete list of getaways when you go to FamilyLifeToday.com. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIf you register today or tomorrow, you\u2019ll save 50 percent off the regular registration fee. This offer expires this weekend, so take advantage of the special offer. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com and register online for a getaway, or call if you have any questions; or if you\u2019d like to register by phone, call 1-800-FL-TODAY and plan to join us at an upcoming <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em> marriage getaway this spring. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhile you\u2019re on our website, check out Clint and Penny Bragg\u2019s book, <em>Marriage Off Course: Trusting God in the Desert of Unwanted Separation or Divorce<\/em>. If you know somebody who is in this place right now, or if you are in this place, here is a book that can help you think through what your posture should be\/what your approach should be in this season of life. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com to order the book, <em>Marriage Off Course;<\/em> or you can call to order at 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tNow, tomorrow, we\u2019re going to continue talking about what to do, if you\u2019ve gone through separation or divorce, and you\u2019re wondering if it\u2019s possible for your marriage to get resurrected\/to get back on course. Clint and Penny Bragg join us tomorrow to talk more about that. I hope you can be here for that as well. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. 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