Commitment #5: We will deal with our differences with appreciation and grace. From last week's post about acknowledging our differences, it is equally important to then deal with them. Many times we develop unhealthy patterns to help ourselves through the discomfort...
What if I were to tell you that you were not in control when you chose to marry your spouse? What if I told you that Someone else created your story and that your marriage is actually not by anything you did. Sometimes we think that we are way more powerful then we...
Choices Having a willing heart is everything. Willing by definition means "ready, eager, or prepared to do something." I also read this definition, "power of choosing," thanks to Merriam-Webster. In a loving relationship, a willing heart, needs to be mutually present....
Commitment 4: We will commit to building a relationship of love. Here is a quote to let soak deeply into your heart and mind: "Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It...
Trust. We have all experienced the brokenness and the strength of a relationship when there is trust or a lack of. Trust can be easily taken for granted and is a lot harder to build then we have ever thought. When we are in the early years of marriage, our spouse is...
Commitment 3: We will work together to build a sturdy bond of trust. When we think about trust and the ways it can be broken there are several things that come to mind. There is unfaithfulness happening, or signs of physical abuse, or a major verbal blow up occurred....
Commitment 1: We will give ourselves to a regular lifestyle of confession and forgiveness. We are going to head straight into the commitments Paul Tripp maps out for us through the book. The commitments will be broken down into two separate chapters inviting us to dig...
From the outside, marriage can appear great but then in the very core of us, there are these whispers of "I never thought this and this would happen to us." Such as: Not expecting to get fired, or never thinking you'd be having the communication issues your marriage...
"It's almost as though the potential husband and wife are motivated not to hear the truth about what they will inevitably face, because they don't want anything to mess up the unfettered affection that has left them in a virtual romantic delirium." - Paul David Tripp...
Enter...Expectations "I had no idea this is what would happen." "This is the last situation I expected to be in." Are these quotes all too similar to you? They sure are to me. From the moment we got engaged, I had a number of expectations I put on marriage that I had...
