Marriage Moment: Don’t Give Up & 30 Days Link Up Day 5

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It’s Marriage Moment & 30 Days to Give Thanks Link Up Day 5

A letter to my 18 year old Bride Self,

Don’t Give Up! It’s hard. Marriage. You will enter thinking it’s going to be flowers and love letters all the time. The reality soon hits, arguments over how to load the toilet paper, who is responsible for the dishes, which way to fold the towels. Then comes the hard part, work. Work that takes place inside the home, outside the home and inside the marriage. Work that brings income, work that maintains and work that brings you closer. It’s work. Hard work.

Then comes the desire for better. Oh it happens in every marriage. By nature we are selfish. We may think about what it would be like if we were not married, or what if we were married to someone else. The reality is… Being married to someone else would also require work, hard work. And the grass is NOT always greener. Stick with it through the hard times because you will find over time that when you see weeds in your own yard, they become beautiful flowers over time.

The hard work takes two. You cannot make a marriage work if only one is working because the two people are now one flesh. You need to figure out how to work in conjunction with each other to achieve your goals. You have to talk it out, you have to compromise, you have to give up your own selfish desires to see the bigger picture. It’s not easy.

It is worth it. When the years pass and the decades slip by you will look at each other with a renewed sense of love. You’ll think “I can’t believe we’ve come through all that.” But the love will grow in ways that right now you cannot imagine, if you would just keep going. Don’t Give Up!

Sincerely,

Renee 2012

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30 Days to Give Thanks: Day 5 Link Up

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Giving Thanks

Today I am grateful for my husband. I am married to a good man. I mean a really good man. The Lord has been good to me to lead us into each others lives. This man works hard to provide for his family. He is a gentle man who treats others with kindness and sincerity. He still opens the door for me and tries in all ways to be helpful to me. There are no words that can truly convey the love that I have for this man. I am blessed beyond measure by the love of this man. When I married him 20 years ago, I could never imagine the ups and downs our lives could take. Through it all we have only grown together. I also could never imagine how truly close 2 people could become.

Ephesians 5:33 NKJV
“Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”

Most holy and righteous Father I thank you for bestowing on me the love of this husband. I thank you for knowing my heart and know who I needed and who needed me. I am grateful that you have blessed me beyond measure with a man who loves and serves you and who in all ways seeks to put my needs above his own. I am so humbled and filled with gratitude for the gentle spirit that he has and strives daily to lead this family in the ways of righteousness. May O Lord, he and I serve you all our days. In the name of your blessed Son, Jesus the Christ I pray.

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