Marriage Monday: Forgiveness God’s Way
Forgiveness God’s way looks so different from forgiveness our way. If you’ve had trouble forgiving your spouse, hanging on to grudges, and feeling resentful, maybe it’s time to try a different way. God’s way.
Forgiveness God’s way looks so different from forgiveness our way. If you’ve had trouble forgiving your spouse, hanging on to grudges, and feeling resentful, maybe it’s time to try a different way. God’s way.
Changing my name in marriage is recalling the meaning and value God gives to marriage. Mr. & Mrs. symbolizes the amazing gift of two becoming one.
Looking back at our Christmas memories, the ones that warm my heart were not the picture-perfect Martha Stewart Christmases. Our most precious memories of what Christmas is truly about were what you might call the Christmas disasters.
Making God my Everything takes the pressure off my husband. He’s free to be my Something Pretty Special. Here are three ways I see that played out in my life and in my marriage.
Did you search for and marry your soul mate? Michael (Ted Dansen) from the Good Place says, “Soul mates are not found, they’re made.” I think he’s right.
Marriage is not about who wins the game. Sometimes we forget we’re on the same team and we begin to pit ourselves against each other. If one spouse “wins” the other “loses.” And the marriage takes a hit. It doesn’t have to be that way.
The good news about marriage is: there’s good news about marriage. Turns out the 50% divorce rate that we’ve been quoting since the 70’s is an urban legend!
Love never fails – at least that’s what 1 Corinthians 13 tells us. When we stop and really think about these words and believe them and apply them-that’s when we appropriate their incredible power to transform ourselves and our marriages. Love never fails!