It’s been one of the most pressing seasons for our marriage.
We’ve been navigating a crux of major life decisions—only one of which included the continent we’d be living on. And our marriage that has been characterized by fairly fluid teamwork can at times be pulled taut by our diverging passions, longings, and reasoning.
“Stressed” doesn’t begin to cover it.
The most pleasantly surprising discovery of such a thin, exhausting stretch of marriage: Despite all we were juggling–by God’s grace, we have remained (as Dan Allender calls it) intimate allies.
Ever wonder how to pray for your marriage in the thin, challenging times? This post is for you.
On many of the Wednesdays of 2017, I’ll be helping my friend Barbara Rainey, on everthinehome.com, explore what she calls “prayer lessons”: ideas to pray for ourselves, our most critical relationships, our communities. This week’s post, “9 Ways to Pray for Your Marriage,” gives some uber-practical ways to move in prayer toward what’s always a good decision: being more married, more one flesh. …Even, perhaps especially, in the tough times.
I hope it encourages you today, wherever this finds you.
