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Over the next four weeks, we’ll hear from four couples in four different decades of marriage, from 11 years all the way to 44. Each story is unique, but they share a common thread: faith, real struggles, and the grace it takes to keep choosing each other through every season.

To begin the series, I’m joined by Lyndsey and Cody, who have been married for 11 years and are raising two young kids. Lyndsey is an entrepreneur and mom at home, and Cody works in the oil and gas industry while also pursuing graduate school. Like many young families, their life is busy and full.

In this conversation, Lyndsey and Cody share their honest story, from a fun blind-date beginning and a whirlwind engagement, to the challenges that came from very different upbringings, busy schedules, and the slow breakdown in communication that eventually brought their marriage to a breaking point around the seven-year mark.

What makes their story so powerful is what happened next. Through prayer, humility, and a renewed commitment to seek God first, they began rebuilding their marriage in a completely new way. Cody shares how surrendering control and pursuing a personal relationship with God transformed how he shows up as a husband and father, while Lyndsey reflects on the importance of grace, understanding love languages, and protecting time together in the middle of busy family life.

Their story is a beautiful reminder that marriages rarely fall apart overnight—but healing and restoration can begin in the smallest steps of faith, humility, and choosing each other again.

Next week we continue the series with another couple in a different decade of marriage. I can’t wait for you to hear what they share.

EPISODE RESOURCES:

Carletta Nelson Podcast Episode:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-heart-that-beats-for-home/id1719372285?i=1000651405059

Love Languages Podcast Episode:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-heart-that-beats-for-home/id1719372285?i=1000656490803

5 Love Languages Books:

https://amzn.to/4rVjkPQ

https://amzn.to/4uc9mLc

Children’s Bibles:

https://amzn.to/46Hacpq

https://amzn.to/4l8Rg97

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What if one of the greatest gifts we can give our children isn’t a perfect childhood, but a healthy marriage to grow up inside of?

In this special kickoff episode, we’re introducing a four-week series called Marriage Through the Decades. This series isn’t about picture-perfect relationships or pretending anyone has it all together. It’s about real couples in real seasons who keep choosing each other—again and again.

Over the next four weeks, you’ll hear from four couples married across four different decades:
• 10–20 years
• 20–30 years
• 30–40 years
• 40+ years

From raising young children to navigating teens, launching adults, and stepping into retirement, each season looks different. But the foundations of friendship, faithfulness, intentionality, and commitment remain steady.

In this episode, we talk about why marriage shapes the atmosphere of our homes, how our kids learn love and conflict resolution by watching us, and why protecting your relationship, even in the busiest seasons, matters more than we often realize.

This conversation is about being intentional, not impressive. Marriage is hard, but it is worth fighting for.

Next week, we begin with a powerful story of restoration from a couple who nearly lost their marriage in the first decade, and what it looked like to rebuild what felt completely broken.

Join us as we walk through the decades together.

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Some days feel like you’re barely holding the house, the calendar, and your own heart together, and you wonder if you’re failing at life. Today’s conversation will meet you right there. Nikki sits down with Deon Holman, wife, mom of three, and writer of an upcoming 30-day devotional project Messy Days, Mighty God, to talk about finding Jesus in the middle of full schedules, ordinary motherhood, and real-life discouragement.

Deon shares the “building project” framework behind her devotional, including three daily pillars that helped her clear the fog during a hard season: time with Jesus, training your body, and intentional nutrition, with Jesus as the true foundation. They also talk about “demo day” (what to tear down, surrender, and release), how to build rhythms that support genuine faith without legalism, and why secondhand inspiration can never replace meeting with God personally. If you’ve been craving joy, spiritual steadiness, and a faith that fits into messy life instead of waiting for the perfect quiet moment… this episode is for you.

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Faith, Wellness, & a Whole Lot of Real Life
A mix of devotionals, honest reflections, Arbonne favorites, and a little encouragement for

Seeds Family Worship Music:
https://seedskidsworship.com/product-category/music/
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On Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/seeds-family-worship/251295888

Scripture Lullabies:
On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3egDut5sE3JIphJpVLO0z4
On Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/scripture-lullabies/464465134

Praise Baby:
On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0uIyzjmP48YI0dpgdAjdeI
On Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/album/sleepytime-lullabies/372543219

Abby Houston - Melodically Memorizing:
On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1CcoMJoJtlZrt2w6XSbj6c?si=9kKzk_T-Tc2JWQq2CQFVog
On Apple: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/abby-houston/1173348681

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