He was in before I married him.ĭennis: Okay. She is a speaker, she and her husband, Bob, have been in the Air Force for 26 years, is that right?Įllie: Well, actually, he's been in for 23 years. It is my privilege to do that.ĭennis: Ellie Kay is a national radio commentator for "Money Matters," a regular guest on "Power Lunch," CNBC's number-one rate show. We're glad you would come back and join us an honor some of the heroes at home in the military families across the country.Įllie: Well, thank you so much. I saw that it was a different kind of life than Mary Ann and I were living.ĭennis: And yet they do have homes and families that have a lot of civilian matters that have to …ĭennis: Have to be dealt with, and we've got some help and hope and encouragement for military families here as we continue to fight this war on terrorism, and in the studio today with us is Ellie Kay, no stranger to our audience, and she's been on FamilyLife Today before. They follow their orders, and they don't get entangled, the Bible says, with civilian matters.Īnd I saw that in the life of these military families. You know, the verse in – what is it, is it 1 Timothy or 2 Timothy where Timothy says soldiers are different they kind of turn their back on worldly stuff and are focused on an assignment. Fort Sam Houston is there, there's a lot of military families in our church down there, and I think it was probably San Antonio where I first got an appreciation for a little bit of what military life is like. You know, we lived for a while in San Antonio, Texas, and San Antonio is a big town for military – Lackland Air Force Base is in San Antonio, and if you're enlisted in the Air Force, you will spend time at Lackland Air Force Base. We're going to help military families crack the code today on how to make a marriage work.Īnd welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Tuesday edition. Our host is the president of FamilyLife, Dennis Rainey, and I'm Bob Lepine. So we have a code, and it's called "K&G" – it means "kinder and gentler." And when I give him that code – and we have agreed on it ahead of time – he immediately throttles back, so to speak, and he realizes that he's doing it, because sometimes he's not even aware of it.īob: This is FamilyLife Today for Independence Day, Tuesday, July 4th. Here is Ellie Kay.Įllie: If he's been on the – you know, focused, flying and sighting and giving orders, he can come home and kind of still be giving orders. Bob: When you're in the military, sometimes it's important to learn secret codes so you can understand not just what the enemy is saying but what your allies are saying as well.
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